Quotes About Flexibility

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.

Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts

To keep up with the times these days, it seems you have to be a little bit demented. — "William F. Kinderman".

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

downside of the team approach is that there may be a conflict between the schedules of your senior attorneys and you. If the senior attorneys on the team prefer to stay late and work late, you'll have to match your schedule to theirs. If they like to work early and leave early, you'll be expected to do the same – because if work schedule differences arise, they'll be resolved in favor of the more senior attorneys, not you.

Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels, or thinks. For them, even an instant's preoccupation could be fatal. Both body and mind must be free to flow and to respond to whatever the situation demands.

We must be careful not to create our own fetters or our own inflexibility.

Parenting is a learn-as-you-go profession.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

I am a feather for each wind that blows.

The chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promisecrammed; you cannot feed capons so.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

I believe in looseness.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

You can do anything, be anything," his father often said, "if you're willing to accept what comes

One who is learning to serve should not do the same thing today as he did yesterday. If he is the same today as yesterday, he has squandered his opportunities. If we do not know what the Lord is doing today or what is going to happen today, we are missing the opportunity.

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.