Flexibility Quotes And Sayings

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“I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.”
– Minuchin Salvador

“Successful persuasion may require any combination of ordinary human techniques: pleading, arguing, requesting, reasoning, illustrating, cajoling, praising, challenging, respecting, appeasing, sharing facts, bargaining, dining together, and so on. Alongside, I must remain flexible to revise my belief in my values, given new findings. I must also accept that, at times, open confrontation is unavoidable. That’s all there is—my belief in values that I think will lead to a better world, and trying to get others to see it my way on issues I care enough about. A sense of humor always helps.”
– Namit Arora

“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.”
– Nolan Ryan

“In the world of ideas it is the emotionally insecure who censure others while remaining prisoners of constricting ideologies and mindsets. Unable to handle too much knowledge, they find comfort in these narrow confines. It remains to the adventurous and unguarded that broad vistas open.”
– Norman W. Turner

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.”
– P.L. Berger

“You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.”
– Patrick Read

“Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.”
– Paul Kagame

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Unlike in school, in life you don’t have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help — or even ask them to do the things you don’t do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility — good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers ‘out there’ than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it’s your job to find them.”
– Ray Dalio

“Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to what there is to know and recognize that they might be wrong. Closed-minded people always tell you what they know, even if they know hardly anything about the subject being discussed. They are typically made uncomfortable by being around those who know a lot more about a subject, unlike open-minded people who are thrilled by such company.”
– Ray Dalio

“New ideas stir from every corner. The show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrassing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future.”
– Rob Lebow

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
– Robert Anson Heinlein

“However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.”
– Robert Huber

“Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!”
– Robert Ludlum

“Flexibility is a requirement for survival.”
– Roger Von Oech

“The amount of complexity I’m willing to tolerate is proportional to the size of the problem being solved.”
– Ryan Dahl

“There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.”
– Saul Bellow

“Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.”
– Shantideva

“When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It’s almost like playing five different roles.”
– Simon Baker

“It is safest to be moderately base – to be flexible in shame and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.”
– Sir Philip Sidney

“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.”
– Stephen Gardiner

“Regarding the nature of reality , it all depends on who is looking and from where.”
– Stuart Wild

“Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard… Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.”
– Tao Te Ching

“Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid.”
– Tao Te Ching

“Bend and you will be straight.”
– Tao Tzu

“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors.”
– Thomas Fuller

“It is only appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
– Thornton Wilder

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