If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. — Joseph Pilates
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
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. — Lao Tzu
True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed — Joseph Pilates
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
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
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. — Jodi Picoult
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details. — Jeff Bezos
You are only as young as your spine is flexible. — Joseph Pilates
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. — Ajahn Sumedho
The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think. — Misty Copeland
Short Flexible Quotes
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. — Bruce Lee
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — Albert Einstein
Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play. — Henri Matisse
Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals. — Shantideva
An open mind is not an empty one. — William Ury
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. — Eric Shinseki
But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week. — Jensen Huang
The tongue has no bones. — Moroccan Proverbs
To adjust the sails according to the wind. — Icelandic Proverbs
Never be afraid to change course. — Tom Bilyeu
Flexible Image Quotes
An unbending tree is easily broken.
Being Flexible Quotes
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
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
Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.
Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach. — Jim Rohn
Be willing to adapt and change as the world evolves. What worked yesterday may not work today. — Steven Bartlett
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
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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
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
Stay Flexible Quotes
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
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad — Denis Waitley
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. — Estelle Morris
Be stubborn about your goals, and flexible about your methods.
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do. — Robert Mondavi
Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges. — Felix Dennis
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.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. — John C. Maxwell
Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course. — Ed Koch
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. — Mark Twain
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home. — Hilary Mantel
Strong And Flexible Quotes
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. — Lao Tzu
Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it. — Jocko Willink
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. — Lao Tzu
In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world. — Daniel Goleman
I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible. — Henry Paulson
Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me. — Brenda Strong
It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players. — Joshua Redman
The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it. — Jeremy Campbell
The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd. — Christian Audigier
I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved. — Natalia Vodianova
Yoga Flexible Quotes
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. — Bob Harper
Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility. — Samantha Stosur
I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday. — Ryan Sheckler
I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer. — Genevieve Cortese
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. — J. Courtney Sullivan
Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness. — Kyle Shewfelt
The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart. — T. K. V. Desikachar
Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment. — Bryan Kest
I practice yoga on a regular basis at my gym and when I travel. Yoga not only keeps me flexible, but I feel it enhance the quality of my blood cells through deep breathing. I also feel energized when I practice yoga, which helps me cope with my demanding schedule. — Nathan East
I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything. — Jaimie Alexander
Thinking Flexibly Quotes
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. — Paul Kagame
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. — Morarji Desai
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge. — Gordon Allport
My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it. — Luigi Pirandello
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
The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset. — Geoffrey Madan
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. — Bruce Lee
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. — Antonin Scalia
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body. — Aldous Huxley
If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat. — Winston Churchill
There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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. — Virginia Satir
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible. — Salvador Minuchin
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength. — Kyuzo Mifune
There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat. — John Daly
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. — Nhat Hanh
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. — Joline Godfrey
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
We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. — American Proverbs
Young bamboo trees are easy to bend. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Schedules are so overrated. — Naval Ravikant
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
True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness. — Christiane Northrup
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. — American Proverbs
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way. — Jack Kornfield
The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure. — David Steindl-Rast
Why can I do the splits? That's weird. I'm uncomfortable with myself. — Logan Paul
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