Quotes About Pliability

It is not the stongest person who wins in life, but it is the most nimble, flexible, and adaptive person who wins in life.

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.

As when things are cold we bring them to the fire to heat and melt, so bring we our cold hearts to the fire of the love of Christ; consider we of our sins against Christ, and of Christ's love towards us; dwell upon this meditation. Think what great love Christ hath showed unto us, and how little we have deserved, and this will make our hearts to melt, and be as pliable as wax before the sun. Secondly

In these days of the shattering of the old form and the building of the new, adaptability is needed. We must avert the danger of crystallisation through pliability and expansion. The "old order changeth," but primarily it is a change of dimension and of aspect, and not of material or of foundation.

The way you keep software soft is to leave as many options open as possible, for as long as possible. What are the options that we need to leave open? They are the details that don't matter.

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

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

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

We know how to make flexibility when needed.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.

1. Nature is pliable, obedient. And the logos that governs it has no reason to do evil. It knows no evil, does none, and causes harm to nothing. It dictates all beginnings and all endings.

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

Theory, however, bends to convenience,

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

We'd like to keep things flexible;

We might say blessed are the flexible for they won't get bent out of shape.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man's body, his mind, or his spirit.

The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That's what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft.

That's one thing I need to work on, my flexibility. I'm not mobile enough, am I.