Quotes about Flexibility

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

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

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

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.