If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible. — Sakyong Mipham
The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change. — Malcolm X
Be willing to adapt and change as the world evolves. What worked yesterday may not work today. — Steven Bartlett
You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward. — Geoffrey Canada
Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. — Nolan Ryan
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. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. — David Bohm
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. — Ajahn Sumedho
You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details. — Jeff Bezos
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them. — Colin Powell
Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles. — Keri Smith
In a world of rapid change, adaptability is the key to survival. — Raoul Pal
Short Being Flexible Quotes
The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think. — Misty Copeland
Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it. — Brian Tracy
Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it. — Bob Lutz
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. — Lou Gerstner
To be successful one must be willing to learn and apply new concepts and not be afraid of change. — Craig R. Barrett
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. — James Agee
Change is constant and touches every area of our lives, so it’s imperative to be able to adapt. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other. — John Dewey
The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Being Flexible Image Quotes
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. — Bruce Lee
An unbending tree is easily broken.
How To Think Quotes
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. — Robert Baden-Powell
There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor. — Martin Luther
To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you. — John Henrik Clarke
Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.
If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things. — Taiichi Ohno
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things! — Andrew Murray
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential. — Vandana Shiva
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost. — Nan Goldin
Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive. — Chinua Achebe
You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it. — Clara Barton
Thinking What To Do Quotes
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. — Mary Kay Ash
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. — Ella Fitzgerald
Be stubborn about your goals, and flexible about your methods.
You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible — Kai Greene
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. — Pope John XXIII
My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own. — Michelle Obama
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put it in the teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to. — Ratan Tata
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. — Malcolm X
In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents. — G-Eazy
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. — Condoleezza Rice
True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed — Joseph Pilates
There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contracts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent. — Nick Szabo
Never be afraid to change course. — Tom Bilyeu
Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being. — Sri Aurobindo
For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner. — Fred Astaire
My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced. — Sarah Lafleur
Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle. — Mother Meera
Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them. — George S. Patton
Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach. — Jim Rohn
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. — King Hussein I
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga. — B.K.S. Iyengar
We've climbed in 60 to 75 kilometer an hour wind conditions without ropes, and yes we put in fixed lines when we can because of the safety. But it's all calculated risk and you have to be so flexible in doing this project, and that's why we've been so successful. We always climb with what we have. — Nirmal Purja
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. — Chris Evert
Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it. — Jocko Willink
The higher the bamboo, the more it can be bent. — Filipino Proverbs
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. — Morihei Ueshiba
I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility. — W. Howard Lester
...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving. — Joan Bauer
Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to. — Norman Mailer
Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. — Bruce Lee
Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you. — Jerry Spinelli
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. — Everett Dirksen
You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve. — Marc Benioff
One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way. — Bruce Lee
I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size. — Sebastian Stan
I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile. — B. R. Ambedkar
Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation. — Les Brown
Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. — Bruce Lee
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents. — Gary Larson
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work. — Tory Burch
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. — Fleur Adcock
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set. — Eda LeShan
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
The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do. — Robert Thurman
Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you. — Brian Regan
The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being. — Daniel Pinchbeck
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses. — Diane Wood
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement. — William S. Burroughs
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. — Bruce Lee
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