Quotes About Malleability

Time even influenced postmodern artists such as Picasso, Braque, and Dalí. Picasso and Braque's cubist style, for instance, depicts people and objects as they exist from all perspectives simultaneously, while Salvador Dalí's Persistence of Memory depicts the malleability and relativity of time.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

People are like chameleons; circumstances make them change their colour.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

I call myself a chameleon.

I can kind of be a chameleon.

I'm a chameleon.

I'm a chameleon of sorts.

Our personal flexibility increases while our malleability to the whims of others decreases. We experience a heightened sense of autonomy and possibility.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

I believe that an actor should be like water, free-flowing and extremely flexible.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.

The chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promisecrammed; you cannot feed capons so.

As a result, nature has endowed the human brain with a malleability and flexibility that lets it adapt to the demands of the world it finds itself in. The brain is neither immutable nor static but continuously remodeled by the lives we lead.

That is the power of formlessness — it gives the aggressor nothing to react against, nothing to hit.

Though the adult brain is more flexible and volatile than was once thought, it is still less malleable than the teenage brain. Reconnecting neurons and rewiring synapses is hard work.5 But in the twenty-first century, you can't afford stability.

Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace. They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree of freedom. This is why today we can educate our children to become Christian or Buddhist, capitalist or socialist, warlike or peace-loving. We

We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by the structure that keeps us captive. In some ways our desires are so socially constructed that they can't rightfully be called our own.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.