Quotes About Adaptability

Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.

When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead, and have fun with what happens.

In the changing weather of life, rather than drift with the currents or be cast about in storms, be the wind at your own back.

I did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

Let me tell you this: They shut me down on radio, that's fine, I'll do TV. They shut me down on TV, that's fine, I'll do Internet. They shut me down on the Internet, that's fine, I'll do stage shows. They shut me down on stage shows, that's fine, I'll go door to door. You will have to shoot me in the head. We are not stopping.

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

The world is not short of whatever you are seeking. If you fail to get it, you may have refused to master the art of getting it.

Don't fear change. Surprise is the only way to new discoveries. Be playful!

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

We don't make mistakes — we just have happy accidents every once in a while.

Everyone can navigate in fine weather.

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

I thought I'd try yoga to make myself more flexible — but I'm still incredibly stubborn.

if we never stretch we snap like a brittle twig and that's true both physically and mentally

Those that yield are not always weak

Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.

That which yields is not always weak

The key was stealthily leveraging and launching, then asking for forgiveness

with a piece of frontier advice long tested in the crucible of practicality: