Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
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
The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never. — Immanuel Kant
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. — Jodi Picoult
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. — B. F. Skinner
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. — Corrie Ten Boom
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. — Albert Camus
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached. — Jasper Johns
Execution is more malleable than market, model, and idea. — Rand Fishkin
We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Nature is malleable and nature learns. — David Wolfe
When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable. — Bo Derek
The form is so malleable and can do so many things. — Jess Walter
Life is malleable and the hammer is desire. — Anya Seton
Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize. — Jay Samit
Rock is much more malleable than ideas. — Kim Stanley Robinson
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. — Charles Duhigg
One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable. — Georges Braque
Malleable Image Quotes
Malleable Life Quotes
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams
The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. — Matthieu Ricard
I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant. — Kevin Smith
With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible. — Marc Blucas
Just take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality. You see, nothing is ever at is seems, yeah this life is but a dream. — Jason Mraz
Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would suggest you alter something much more malleable than your flesh, like your priorities, or your friends. — Nick Offerman
You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way. — Kristen Stewart
Pliable Quotes
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. — Mark Twain
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. — Billy Sunday
All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. — Lao Tzu
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end. — Clement Greenberg
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. — Bette Davis
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression. — Joshua Renolds
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. — Quentin Crisp
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic. — Philip Zimbardo
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans. — Beth Moore
We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way. — Elizabeth Loftus
God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful. — Frank Peretti
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. — Ken Burns
Our identity is 100% malleable. We believe certain things about ourselves-usually negative stuff. And we let those beliefs become our identity, because we wrongly believe them to be facts. But the only fact that’s permanent is that we’re capable of change and growth. — Tom Bilyeu
The overarching principle of nutritional biochemistry is you have to be malleable, you have to be empirical, and you have to assume that, if it a diet or nutritional approach doesn't work and you've tried it correctly, that's okay—there's another approach. — Peter Attia
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems. — James Redfield
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning. — Eric Hoffer
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Peter Berger
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Peter L. Berger
Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable. — Richard Dreyfuss
I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing. — Ken Burns
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. — Lao Tzu
An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate. — Nicole Kidman
Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change. — Dan Millman
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. — Jim Bishop
The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions. — Storm Jameson
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter. — Giordano Bruno
In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence. — Fred Ritchin
Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels of bastardization of religious beliefs. But the unique thing about Christianity is that it is so amorphous and not reductive to culture or place or anything. It's extremely malleable. — Sufjan Stevens
What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. — Jaimal Yogis
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay. — Eric Hoffer
When you look at Steven Meisel's pictures and you see girls rolling around in mud or cars are blowing up? It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to do that. I think you have to be malleable, and that's what makes a truly great model. It's not the perfect lip or the perfect face, it's your own ability to take on a character and that's, I think, something there's a misconception about. — Michael Flutie
Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous. — Jane Hirshfield
I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing. — Alex Kingston
The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth. — Ayn Rand
Lives are not stories. A day, a month, a year, or a lifetime has no plot. Our experiences are only the raw stuff of stories. The beginnings of our lives are arbitrary; usually their endings come too soon or too late for any neat narrative conclusions.We turn our lives into stories, and, in doing so, we can stop them where we choose. Our stories do in a small way what memoirs and autobiographies do on a grander scale: they allow a self-fashioning that gives remembered lives a coherence that the day-to-day lives of actual experience lack. History, of course, also imposes coherence, but the historian works will less malleable stuff than memory. Memoirs are seamless; good histories disrupt. — Richard White
"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. — Karl Rove
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. — Emmanuelle Beart
I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if the director disagrees. — Rishi Kapoor
People have been asking me, "What advice do you have for young writers?" I tell them: a) get off social media; b) don't ask your friends what they think about your work or your ideas. You need to focus and be insane within yourself to build your sandcastle. The mind is so malleable and you need to have a steel trap around it, at least while you're working on something. — Ottessa Moshfegh
I often say time is malleable, but the reception of an artwork is malleable too. When the culture changes, the view and the way you see that work, your perspective, changes. It's something that you can't control. It's sort of daunting and intimidating, but at the same time very fascinating, extremely fascinating. — Sanford Biggers
What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable. — Stephen Colbert
Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents. — Tom Peters
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to retrace my steps quite a lot, because the stories are very intricate and the material is elusive, and possibly with age, my memory is not as malleable as it used to be. — Marina Warner
We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind. — John Wooden
We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms. — Terence McKenna
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