Flexibility Quotes

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

~ Albert Einstein

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

~ Criss Jami

Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

~ Daniel J. Levitin

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.

~ Pearl Zhu

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

~ Vernor Vinge

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

~ Luigina Sgarro

Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

~ Andrew Zolli

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

~ George F. Will

The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.

~ Debasish Mridha

A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.

~ Roseville Nidea

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

~ Idries Shah

Develop flexibility and you will be firm, cultivate yielding and you will be strong.

~ Liezi

Flexibility is the greatest strength.

~ Steven Redhead

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

~ Hiroko Sakai

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

~ Roger Von Oech

And she knew that this was the thing that would harm Dionne in the end, not her foolishness but the foolhardy way in which she clung to her own terrible ideas. She knew that this was Avril's undoing, not that she'd made the wrong choices, but that she'd been so unwilling to let anyone in to see the lie of her marriage, this masking was worse than the original mistake. Sixty-three years on this earth has taught Hyacinth that it wasn't so much the mistakes that people made but how flexible they were in the aftermath that made all the difference in how their lives turned out. It was the women who held too tightly to the dream of their husband's fidelity who unraveled, the parents who clasped their children too close who lost them, the me who grieved too deeply the lives they'd wanted and would never have who saw their sadness consume them. Hyacinth worried about Dionne because of her hard way of being in the world, the way she could only see the world through the lens of her own flawed feelings.

~ Naomi Jackson

Life is something that really cannot be explained. It got to be experienced! For experiencing life to its fullest an attitudes of openness, gratefulness, happiness, flexibility are required. But most of all 'being in love' is crucial to live life to its fullest potential.

~ Vishwas Chavan

Yoga is not just a workout, it is a natural way of enhancing flexibility, calmness, clarity, and youthfulness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.

~ Joseph Joubert

Have the capacity to adapt to change, it's your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a key when you accept changes.

~ Angelica Hopes

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body...

~ Kate Mullane Robertson

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

~ George F. Will

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.

~ Harold Edmund Stearns

Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solutions and results come from cooperation, hard work and efficiency. With high intention matched with a flexible, patient heart and proficient action gets best quality and value. As for the restless grumbles raving from unconsciousness of complexity of matters, best be brushed off ducking out wisely from discourtesies.

~ Angelica Hopes

Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

~ Duane Elmer

A flexible mind has a better chance to think differently and take a unique path in the life journey.

~ Pearl Zhu

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

~ Frank Herbert

The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.

~ Andrew Zolli

Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

~ Andrew Zolli

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

~ Douglas Brinkley

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

~ Ralph Steadman

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

~ Richard Rohr

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.

~ George Friedman

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

~ Thomas E. Mann

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….

~ Jeff Bezos