Quotes on Flexibility

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

If you change the environment, you change the people.

Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they require eliminating protections for vested interests in the short term for the sake of greater long-term prosperity.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is no need for a special training place, equipment, or an opponent, a flexibility in training is provided such that the physically and spiritually weak individual can develop his body and mind so gradually and naturally that he himself may not even realize his own great progress.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Running water never grows stale.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.