Quotes About Flexibility

That was the problem with religion. You no sooner made up your mind about something than you had to change it.

But nothing surprises me now. I've grown used to living in a world that is out of joint, as if it has been struck by an enormous earthquake so that the roads are no longer flat, nor the building straight.

What's your plan?" "There isn't one," said Hester. "I'm just making it up as I go along.

Archilochus: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

And only when we are proven wrong so clearly that we can no longer deny it to ourselves will we adjust our mental models of the world—producing a clearer picture of reality. Forecast

When the facts change, I change my mind," the legendary British economist John Maynard Keynes declared.

We have all been too quick to make up our minds and too slow to change them.

Quit pretending you know things you don't and start running experiments.

No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength

So many different formulas can work that there's no real formula. What's important is to learn from whomever or whatever you can, at your own rate, in your own way. How or when you learn doesn't matter, so long as the learning occurs.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

My best office is my bed.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

A young person still thinks it is possible–there is time enough–to become all things: athlete and aesthete, soldier and pacifist, anchorite and debauchee.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

Besides finding a great place to stay, it's important for me to find at least one cultural destination to visit, other than that, I don't like to plan too much. I like to suss out the situation when I get on the ground and then go!

My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.

I like to absorb the atmosphere and explore wherever I'm working or visiting, so I can't say there's any type of place I don't like. When you travel you have to be open to new experiences.