Quotes About Malleability

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Guarda tu l'acqua: perché dicono che è saggia? Perché prende la forma del vaso ove la si versa." "Anche il vino, mi pare!

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

All our societies on the verge of nervous breakdowns, but still they do not collapse. All these bodies subject to the most incredible physical, ideological, media persecutions, yet they resist with an improbable malleability. Far from bemoaning our fragility, we should admire our stamina and that of the social body as a whole.

If I do have a strength, it probably is adaptability.

You are fit if you can adapt to the demands of your environment with ease and imagination," Myers

If there's any greater exhibit of the malleability of human nature than the sight of someone standing, absently waiting for the light to change at a deserted intersection, I don't know what it is.

There is nothing in this world, incredible though it may seem, to which the human body and with it the human soul cannot in time learn to adapt itself.

From a young age, he had to learn to survive, and to shape-shift into whatever pleased the people he was around.

Computers and other electrical equipment seemed to shrink when Michael was around, becoming malleable and obedient in his large hands. It was a pity he couldn't do the same with every problem. Tap a few keys, frown in an interested way. "Mmmm, let's give this a go, then," and hey presto, confidence about the functionality of your personality rebooted and restored.

Such was the malleability of the Buddha's message, which eschewed dogma and blind faith. "Treat my teachings like gold. Test them and shape them into an ornament to suit each particular wearer", he said.

that one could play with reality and give it what shape one chose.

the facts change, I change my mind.

Recruiters, for terrorist cells and police forces and armies, relied on this simple truth: if you got people young enough, they could be made to do just about anything.

Fortunes were like clay, and could be reshaped at any time.

agility: the ability to quickly change direction while traveling at a high speed.

The new breed of consumer is not as trusting, as loyal, or as malleable as those of the past.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

When it comes to the quality of our thought, our neurons and synapses are entirely indifferent. The possibility of intellectual decay is inherent in the malleability of our brains.

I can change myself, but it's an effort. And it doesn't last. It's easier to do as water does: allow myself to be contained, and take on the shape of my containers.

We'll adapt. We'll have to. God is Change. Strange how much it helps me to remember that.