Flexible Quotes

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. (Laozi)
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Instead of striving to be right at high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. View quote
Edward de Bono
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. View quote
Sydney Smith
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. View quote
Saul Bellow
Important principles may and must be flexible. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. View quote
Penelope Lively
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected. (Daniel Yergin)
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. View quote
Everett Dirksen
Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down-from high flat temples-in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blonde Satan. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand. View quote
Joan Robinson
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. View quote
Virginia Satir
We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind. View quote
Neal Stephenson
I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. View quote
Alvar Aalto
Just as organic species evolve toward the use of greater densities of a wider variety of free-energy sources in their environment, so human societies develop to access, store, and use in greater densities larger quantities of free energy through the ongoing improvement of their technologies. As a consequence societies, the same as natural systems, tend to grow larger in size, develop more intricate relations among their diverse components, and create more massive and flexible modes of interaction among them. View quote
Ervin László
Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions. (Felix Baumgartner)
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. View quote
Frei Otto
In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible. View quote
Betsy Beers
Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop and non-wage benefits to shrivel, creating worse inequality than statistics reveal. View quote
Guy Standing
We teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist. View quote
Albert Ellis