Quotes about Flexibility

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues and thanked God that he was not like other men.

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

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.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.