Quotes About Flexibility

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Even trees that grow big and strong still bend to the will of the wind

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him—to give God "elbow room." We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses.

When we become simply a promoter or a defender of a particular belief, something within us dies.

Readiness for God means that we are prepared to do the smallest thing or the largest thing—it makes no difference. It means we have no choice in what we want to do, but that whatever God's plans may be, we are there and ready. Whenever any duty presents itself, we hear God's voice as our Lord heard His Father's voice, and we are ready for it with the total readiness of our love for Him.

Politics is not an exact science.

Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, "Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.")

Politics is no exact science.

As she had learned these past few years, things changed—life, people, animals—all without your permission, no matter how zealously you fought to maintain supreme control.

Though I'm winging it, I've realized that everyone else is, too. Parenting starts out as a concrete project. You're full of ideas about how to shape your children. But you end up with this jellyfish of a family that you can't control exactly. All you can do is warm the waters and nudge it in the right direction.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

Different times need different types of leadership.

Under stress, an unexercised heart will explode in frustration or fury. If the situation is especially tense, that exploding heart may be hurled like a fragment grenade toward the source of its pain. But a heart that has been consistently exercised through conscious engagement with suffering is more likely to break open instead of apart. Such a heart has learned how to flex to hold tension in a way that expands its capacity for both suffering and joy.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

I'd bring our big players out to the perimeter and make them run the play like a guard, so they saw the play from that angle as well as their own. When one of our bigs got upset if a guard didn't make a play, I'd say, "Fine. You go play point.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

I don't break; I bounce.

Where does a werewolf sleep? Anywhere he wants to.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.