Quotes about Flexibility

A theological articulation can be fruitful in one place at one time but not at that same place at a different time or at a different place at the same time.

One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different—appropriate—speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Since

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

Open all the doors. Don't commit yourself to just one idea of happiness. Remove the idea of happiness that you have, and then happiness can come, this afternoon.

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.