Be Flexible Quotes

#1. 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

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

Peter Cundill

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Jane Fonda

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Brian Tracy

#18. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed.

Jason Kravits

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Lesley Nicol

#30. 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

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

Margaret Drabble

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Brian Regan

#37. 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

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

Eugene Ormandy

#39. Be big, fast and flexible.

Reed Hastings

#40. Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

Zig Ziglar

#41. I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

Sonya Hartnett

#42. Happiness is the natural state for most people whenever they feel healthy, have flexible schedules, and expect the future to be good.

Anonymous

#43. For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

Hans Vestberg

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They're looking at their next start or their next at-bat.

Terry Francona

#46. You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Reid Hoffman

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Clive Barnes

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks.

Ashraf Ghani

#53. I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

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

Bruce Lee

#55. 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

#56. You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

Hans Zimmer

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#58. 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

#59. I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.

Sebastian Stan

#60. Unbendingness can also be monomania, it can ca be tyranny, and also it can be brittle, whereas what is flexible can also be humane, and strong enough to last.

Salmon Rushdie

#61. Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Brenda Strong

#62. I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."

W. J. T. Mitchell

#63. Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

Dalai Lama

#64. As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

Martin Luther

#65. I am very proud to be taking command of a Type 23 frigate, which is an extremely flexible warship, and I'm looking forward to taking HMS Portland on operations with a professional and focused team.

Sarah West

#66. 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

#67. Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].

Mara Liasson

#68. 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

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

Reid Hoffman

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

Lawrence S. Kubie

#71. 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

#72. I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#73. Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.

Narendra Modi

#74. 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

#75. I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

G-Eazy

#76. I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.

Steve Blake

#77. 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

#78. I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.

Ann Packer

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

Ben Huh

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

Gloria Steinem

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

George Balanchine

#84. I assumed that people weren't doing their best so I judged them and constantly fought being disappointed, which was easier than setting boundaries. Boundaries are hard when you want to be liked and when you are a pleaser hellbent on being easy, fun, and flexible.

Brene Brown

#85. Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Norman Mailer

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

Felix Baumgartner

#87. There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

Jim Nussle

#88. 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

#89. A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change.

G.K. Chesterton

#90. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.

Michel Gondry

#95. I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Eliot Spitzer

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

Tom Cook

#97. 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

#98. Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

Bruce Lee

#99. Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that - because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

Jerry Spinelli

#100. The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.

Robert Thurman