19 quotes found
“Flexibility is the greatest strength.”
“What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.”
“When we arrived at my home north of the city, my five-year-old son Magnus, brimming with the confidence he'd gained in two full weeks of kindergarten, opened the front door and asked John, "Is it t...”
“There may be arrogance and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.”
“And she knew that this was the thing that would harm Dionne in the end, not her foolishness but the foolhardy way in which she clung to her own terrible ideas. She knew that this was Avril's undoin...”
“Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture t...”
“A flexible mind has a better chance to think differently and take a unique path in the life journey.”
“There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integr...”
“The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them in the long run without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is ...”
“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”
“Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow and offer relatively short-term feedback. This leads to internal comparisons t...”
“The author says resilience is the ability to move rob a preferred state to an expanded list of alternatives.”
“Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.”
“Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.”
“Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.”
“He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity as though it were another mask.”
“There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.”
“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….”
“He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.”
