Quotes About Flexibility

A bow has no conscience: it is a prolongation of the hand and desire of the archer. It can serve to kill or to meditate. Therefore, always be clear about your intentions. A bow is flexible, but it has its limits. Stretching it beyond its capacity will break it or exhaust the hand holding it. Therefore, try to be in harmony with your instrument and never ask more than it can give.

When men [sic] avoid encounter they become inflexible and treat others as mere objects; instead of nurturing life they kill life; instead of searching for life, they flee from it. And these are oppressor characteristics.

We must change in order to survive.

Lo bueno del teletrabajo es que estás más con tu familia. Lo malo del teletrabajo es que estás más con tu familia.

Just as in Hollywood, what matters most is not the movie you made twenty years ago, ten years ago, or even just a couple of years ago, it's the one you made most recently that counts. You need to be constantly refueling your brag campaign to reflect changes in your circumstances and audience.

I will go outside, wander about aimlessly, and see what happens.

schedule takes into account that sometimes

I also like to apply "good enough" to other concepts such as a good enough job, a good enough try, a good enough outing, a good enough day or a good enough life. I apply this concept liberally to contradict the black-and-white, all-or none thinking of the critic which reflexively judges people and things as defective unless they are perfect.

This is especially good news because what is learned can be unlearned and vice versa.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards.

If you find yourself falling into single-minded, repetitive practice of a particular topic or skill, change it up: mix in the practice of other subjects, other skills, constantly challenging your ability to recognize the problem type and select the right solution.

The headline in the Washington Post read, "You'll Never Have to Go to Work Again." The article described how innovations in IT make it possible to choose whatever location you want to do your work from. The year was 1969.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Transposing the past is an act of wisdom. It is not scripted. It can't be predicted.

adapting the past to speak to changing circumstances in the present.

Without its unwavering commitment to adaptation over time, the Bible would have died a quick death over two thousand years ago. Its existence as a source of spiritual truth that transcends specific times and places is made possible by its flexibility and adaptive nature—one of the many paradoxes we need to embrace when it comes to the Bible.

Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.