Flexibility Quotes

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I've always wanted to be - I know people think this is an insult - but a jack of all trades.

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

When the facts change, one ought to change one’s opinion.

Adapt or Die

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

… it is well to realize that as the years go on, we are being given a constantly increasing variety of ways in which we may do things, so we have a choice and may fit whatever we do to our personal needs and the circumstances of the moment. There are often times when I would rather travel by train, there are many times when nothing gives more pleasure than to step into a car and drive off. There are other times when I can think of no way in which to go where I want except by air. There are many times when I would rather sit at home and listen to the radio. There are times when I want to be in the great hall and actually see the orchestra playing, or hear the speech being made. It is all a question of meeting our needs and desires in new ways.

I'm pretty easy going, I think.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You need, in your closet, clothes that will - that you can use in many different ways. Clothes that make you fell comfortable, clothes that make you feel 'you.'

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.