Be Flexible Quotes

#1. Different brands are indeed different, and that's the challenge of developing recipes for a cooker. But just like anything, you have to be flexible.

Michele Scicolone

#2. My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced.

Sarah Lafleur

#3. Choose a summit; make a plan to reach there! If you think you can't make it, choose a new summit, make another plan. Or give up the summits, make new plans, find lower targets! In short, be 'flexible' in life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.

Willem Dafoe

#5. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

Eric Bana

#6. It's easy to get stuck thinking one particular way. And a lot of times it's even good to be rooted in your beliefs. But every once in a while someone comes along and blows everything you ever thought to be true right out of the water. Sometimes it's more important to be flexible than right.

Rachel Higginson

#7. When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.

Lisa Randall

#8. You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

Michael Caine

#9. Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Brian Tracy

#10. Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Diane Kruger

#11. Be flexible be nuanced. It's important to open yourself up to new opportunities and experiences and not be afraid to take risks.

Sarah Lafleur

#12. If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

J. Richard Hackman

#13. 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.

Gloria Steinem

#14. Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present themselves at the location. Be flexible, and be patient. Leave ego at home. Get the photo before you yell at the asshole, not after.

Peter Menzel

#15. Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

Lesley Nicol

#17. In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

Eugene Ormandy

#19. Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. If you can't be flexible, you can't be led by the Holy Spirit." Ian O'Malley from upcoming book Recovered and Free.

Charlotte S. Snead

#21. Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner.

Gerry Lindgren

#22. God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

King Hussein I

#23. Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

Tory Burch

#24. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Bruce Lee

#25. Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

Richard Schmid

#26. Be flexible like trees; when life's winds blow bend, but do not break.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

Gail Kelly

#28. You do see some people that can contort themselves all the way around, but they may have been practicing for years, they may be gymnasts or they may just be flexible.

Jayne Middlemiss

#29. The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a chauffeur or a chaperone, especially for my 12-year-old and whatever her plans are.

Lyor Cohen

#30. Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Reid Hoffman

#31. Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

Lawrence S. Kubie

#32. We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#33. I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.

Viggo Mortensen

#34. In every country, it's different, and you have to be flexible and slow and careful, and in the end rely on the experience of others who have gone before you and have begun to figure these things out.

Rick Rowley

#35. We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

Ben Huh

#36. To be just, a law has to be flexible.

Gloria Steinem

#37. If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

Brene Brown

#38. Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.

Les Brown

#39. Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

Felix Baumgartner

#40. It is the same for your life. Be flexible and explore different behaviors and strategies to unlock what you truly want in life or who you are destined to be.
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Roger Ellerton

#41. Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing ... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

Corin Tucker

#42. Be courageous, but humble,
passionate, but simple,
have beliefs, but be flexible.

Debasish Mridha

#43. Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.

Marion Vernoux

#44. You have to stick to your guns and still know when to be flexible. That's something I've had to learn-which battles to fight.

Martina Mcbride

#45. When you live outside the law, you have to be flexible

Tom Cook

#46. Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.

Jeremy Renner

#47. Methodology must be flexible. Companies often don't adopt the materials & methods they were trained on because they aren't flexible enough.

Brian Lawley

#48. We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.

Tommy Franks

#49. It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.

Darren Shahlavi

#50. Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Joan Bauer

#51. I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Everett Dirksen

#52. Life never goes according to your plans, encourage yourself to be flexible without guilt.

Kishore Bansal

#53. The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Glen Mazzara

#54. A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

Walter Kirn

#55. If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

Kim Novak

#56. I've said it before - life really has a way of working out for me. My advice? A positive attitude and the ability to be flexible is essential. And a dash of delusion never hurts.

Jana Aston

#57. When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.

Mooji

#58. When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.

Simon Sinek

#59. I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

Regina King

#60. And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.

Clint Howard

#61. You have to be flexible enough to realize that, over the course of making a film for three and a half years, things are going to slightly change and drift, as you work out solutions to each problem as they come up.

Duncan Jones

#62. The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

Willem Dafoe

#63. Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.

John Kessel

#64. If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Hilary Mantel

#65. The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

Douglas Hofstadter

#66. Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

John F. Kennedy

#67. For a flexible person, it is impossible not to reach his destination, because by using his ability to be flexible, he can easily define a nearer new destination!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#68. Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Jeanine Basinger

#69. Change helps you to be flexible.

Sunday Adelaja

#70. Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.

Debasish Mridha

#71. Be flexible and adapt easily to new things

Sunday Adelaja

#72. Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#73. You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#74. In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Edward De Bono

#75. Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

Felix Dennis

#76. Religion itself cannot but be dynamic. In order to combat modern materialistic mores, to fight nihilism and egotism, religion must also develop, must be flexible in its forms, and it must have a correlation with the cultural forms of the epoch.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#77. The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

Deborah Mailman

#78. I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

Linus Roache

#79. It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Sydney Smith

#80. Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

Mildred Dresselhaus

#81. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.

Josh Kaufman

#82. There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.

Peter Cundill

#83. It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world.

Mo Rocca

#84. We are like water, aren't we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Wally Lamb

#85. Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

Jane Fonda

#86. The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

Cyndi Lee

#87. I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.

Kate Voegele

#88. They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms - not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating.

Paula McLain

#89. You do not need to be a mountain to feel strong. Be like a little flexible stream to have true power.

Debasish Mridha

#90. Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed.

Jason Kravits

#91. I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

Nigel Kennedy

#92. Life-Enriching Education: an education that prepares children to learn throughout their lives, relate well to others, and themselves, be creative, flexible, and venturesome, and have empathy not only for their immediate kin but for all of humankind.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#93. You will know that it is time when there are many among you whose minds appear to be more flexible than the others. The name you should give those people is Divergent.

Veronica Roth

#94. Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Margaret Drabble

#95. I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#96. What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.

Susan Scott

#97. Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.

John Kuypers

#98. Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our hubris gets in our way.

Sy Montgomery

#99. Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.

Brian Regan

#100. Sometimes, feels flexible is the one makes you falling down on the edge. I'm telling you, be more relevant in some case and you will stand firm!

Shim Steward