Quotes About Flexibility

lower dose, which, like the building codes in California that are designed to prevent damage from earthquakes, allowed my mind and emotions to sway a bit.

As I say, these were helpful lessons for me. Not only had I learnt that changes were a part of Josie, and that I should be ready to accommodate them, I'd begun to understand also, that this wasn't a trait peculiar just to Josie, that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passersby - as they might in a store window, and that such display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.

Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It's about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn't won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that's when you've lost.

But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par.

As I say, these were helpful lessons for me. Not only had I learned that 'changes' were a part of Josie, and that I should be ready to accommodate them, I'd begun to understand also that this wasn't a trait peculiar just to Josie; that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.

Tell me when you want to pick it up again. Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight. I'll do that. Lunch?

you bend over backward to keep

When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.

There's a time and place for spontaneity

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

Changing your beliefs with every change of monarch was called 'policy', and people who did it were 'politicians'.

Not my usual role,' she said

Habrá que cruzar ese puente cuando se llegue a él.

They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

For life to smile at you, you must equip yourself with the power of change.

A master is one who can effortlessly alternate between a free mind and a controlled mind.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

You do not need to be a mountain to feel strong. Be like a little flexible stream to have true power.

Pray as you can, not as you can't.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.