Quotes About Flexibility

In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us.

In times of great change [which is always], learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." Faith

Eric Hoffer, the street philosopher, put it this way: "In times of great change [which is always], learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.

Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five...

Institutional changes, instead of following the path of a guided arrow, head in different and often conflicting directions: a profitable operating unit is suddenly sold, for example, yet a few years later the parent company tries to get back into the business in which it knew how to make money before it sought to reinvent itself. Such twists have prompted the sociologists Scott Lash and John Urry to speak more largely of flexibility as "the end of organized capitalism.

Having no claims upon others, I bent the way the wind blew, rendering unto my environment that which was my environment's, and rendering unto myself that which I felt was mine.

Portugal é o país onde as regras são meras sugestões.

Demagnetizing is a fact of life.

If one of them wanted to go to bed well before the other one wanted to go to bed, who could object, because the day would come when they could retreat back to rugged individualism, it was right there waiting to be re-employed, and so staggered shifts should not be interpreted as some kind of loss, some kind of giving up.

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck.

Things will work out - maybe just not the way you plan

You need to be prepared to move." "Why?" I sat up and looked out the windshield, straight into a raging sandstorm. "Oh…

Percy's ears turned as pink as Alex's jeans. Anyway, maybe we've been looking at this all wrong. I've been tying to teach you sea skills. But the most important thing is to use whatever you've got to hand - your team, your wits, the enemy's own magical stuff. And there's no way to plan for that, I said. Exactly! Percy said. My work here is done! Annabeth frowned. Percy, you're saying the best plan is no plan. As a child of Athena, I can't really endorse that.

Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero

I'd have to play this smart … which was not my usual style.

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.

reservations

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

you never know what's going to happen next. It keeps you on your toes. That's what Granny says. And it's important to be on your toes because you just never know what might happen next in this world.

Act fast but don't get tied into a single course of action.

But it's better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle.

Cross that bridge when you come to it

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.