Quotes About Flexibility

L'intelligenza è adattabilità, costante e individuale.

Octavia E. Butler

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back. But things have changed a lot, and they'll change more. Things are always changing. This is just one of the big jumps instead of the little step-by-step changes that are easier to take. People have changed the climate of the world. Now they're waiting for the old days to come back.

Sometimes she sounded as though she'd never left, and sometimes she sounded as though she'd never been near any part of the south. She seemed to be able to turn the accent on and off. She tended to turn it on for comforting people, and for threatening to kill them.

in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its place and original purpose would soon become moribund.

Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness—these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized.

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Nevins explained that the traits of a decentralized society-flexibility, shared power, ambiguity-made the Apaches immune to attacks that would have destroyed a centralized society.

This is the first major principle of decentralization: when attacked, a decentralized organization tends to become even more open and decentralized.

adaptive thinking, being flexible, and encouraging innovation.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.

I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.

The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.