Quotes About Flexibility

In life's most difficult situations, it is our capacity to cope and personal resiliency that are put to the ultimate test. It's then that the freedom to choose our attitude takes center stage. To exercise this freedom effectively, however, we must be able to view any given situation from different vantage points. We must know we are and be flexible and courageous enough to make a shift when necessary, even if it means moving away from what is expected or considered "normal.

That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?

Routinization of work, the researchers concluded, does not have to diminish creativity; if it's accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.

if it's accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things

A prudent chief not always must display His pow'rs in equal ranks, and fair array, But with th' occasion and the place comply, Conceal his force, nay seem sometimes to fly.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

Make a plan," Dad always said. "And if that doesn't work, make another one and if that doesn't work, you're probably the problem.

Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.

I've always found that the best experiences in life are the ones you didn't plan, the ones you stumble across and they just happen

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. It is best to bear what can't be altered. SENECA

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

People tell stories all the time: the stories they want told, where any story could be changed or warped this way or that.

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

If I've been working a lot and I've been away from my kids, then I don't go to the gym. It's okay to miss a day. I tell myself not to feel bad about it, too, because then it's a waste if you choose not to do something and feel bad.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.

It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world.

You want to stop playing 'Fortnite,' man, because you aren't having fun anymore? Good. Go watch someone else. Go play another game.