Quotes about Flexibility

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

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

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

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.

It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.

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.