Quotes about Flexibility

When we are all mind, things can get rigid.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

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