If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible. — Sakyong Mipham
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. — Japanese Proverbs
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
A young branch can be straightened, a mature one breaks. — Filipino Proverbs
Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die. — Lao Tzu
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. — Paul Kagame
If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. — Joseph Pilates
Short Pliable Quotes
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. — Mark Twain
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
Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth. — Robert H. Shaffer
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. — Xunzi
Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them. — Warren Buffett
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable. — Virgil
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. — Laurence J. Peter
God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead. — Gloria Gaynor
Pliable Image Quotes
Malleable Quotes
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
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams
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
Execution is more malleable than market, model, and idea. — Rand Fishkin
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
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
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. — Billy Sunday
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
You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching. — Morgan Wootten
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer
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 Reynolds
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. — Charles Bukowski
That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility. — Alfred Doblin
I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one. — Betsy Blair
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. — Charles Bukowski
You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight. — Brett Hull
Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet. — M. Russell Ballard
In nature this animal would have nothing to do with you. "Natural horsemanship" is just words. It's not natural at all. There's an abundance of trust that must be developed for you. Imagine if humans were that pliable. — Buck Brannaman
Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment. — Jane Addams
The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him. — Edward John Carnell
Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life. — Sophia Lyon Fahs
Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative. — John Shelby Spong
The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it STRENGTH. Those two thing make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs. — Don Delillo
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay. — Anne Bronte
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive. — Galen Beckett
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