Quotes about Flexibility

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!

Marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than being the victim of change

If you stop exercising for any period of time, you don't maintain your fitness at the same level. You begin to decline. Your body and your muscles become softer and weaker. You lose your strength, flexibility, and stamina. In order to maintain them, you must keep working at them every day, every week, and every month.

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically programmed behavior in human beings more than in any other species.