Quotes About Flexibility

Sometimes, Gerald, people break the law so clearly you can hear it crack like a tree branch snapped in two. But other times, like a baker twisting a roll of dough into a pretzel, you only bend the law. You don't tear it. You don't break it. You end up with something better than the ingredients you started with. And the final result is beautiful to behold.

Your level of intelligence is not only a measure of what you have learned, but also a measure of how well you can unlearn and re-learn!

You can ask ten different psychiatrists what they might do in a given situation, and you might get ten different answers. And it's possible that none of them would be wrong.

Lezen is een soort handgemeen tussen lezer en boek. Het is een strijd. (...) Het is een afstandelijke houding, waarin ik leer de ruimte van mijn verbeelding te vergroten, alsof ik bepaalde rollen uitprobeer. Dat is een oefening in vrijheid en geeft aan mijn eigen levensovertuiging een zekere soepelheid en groothartigheid. Door op deze manier andere wegen uit te proberen, scheppen we opnieuw ruimte om onze houding te overwegen.

This "mind-mindedness" should be apparent in the way we think about and talk to the one we want to help and on how we think about and talk to each other. It is about curiosity and flexibility. It is about how we deal with crises and how we reflect about them. It is about supervision, exercises, role-play and video. It is about a minimum goal of common understanding, good management and a good working milieu.

English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language of a people who have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

The best way for them to ensure their psychological survival is to be in control of their environment and the people in it at all times. That's why it's their way or the highway, and compromise and flexibility seem impossible.

Avoid the words "all" or "never." Instead of thinking everything is "this way or that way," come up with three more alternatives.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

Don't let self-imposed, unnecessary restrictions limit your thinking. Whenever you encounter a problem, it is worth spending a minute (or more) asking the question: 'Am I imposing rules that I don't need to? Can I change or bend the rules to my advantage?

I'm learning to be a part of a team, even if the team doesn't always to what I want. - Amber Brown

Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had.

Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

On safari, I saw Denys in sharper relief than I ever had. He had an infallible compass, and a way of seeing everything as if he knew it would never be there exactly the same again. More than anyone I'd known, Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

We were both straining to bend and compromise for the other. But that was what marriage was about, wasn't it?

nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend. I

The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

More than anyone I'd known, Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

Avea o busola care nu dadea gres si un fel de a privi totul de parca stia ca nimic nu ravea sa mai fie vreodata exact la fel. Mai mult decat oricine altcineva, Denys intelegea ca nimic nu ramane in loc pentru noi, ori ca n-ar trebui sa ramana. Secretul e sa iei lucrurile asa cum vin si sa le accepti intru totul, fara sa te opui sau sa-ti fie frica, fara sa le tii prea strans sau sa le indoi.

Denys had a way of seeing everything as if he knew it would never be there exactly the same again. He understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistence or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.