Quotes about Flexibility

I'm man enough to tell you that I can't put my finger on exactly what my philosophy is right now, but I'm flexible.

Our actions may be impeded... But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impeding to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.

We have various abilities, present in all rational creatures as in the nature of rationality itself. And this is one of them. Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it—turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself—so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

To be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that a man can show both strength and flexibility.

If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act rightly, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth

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.

Take what the moment offers. Don't close doors. Be thankful.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

That's all right with me, I like changes.