Flexibility Quotes

Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other people's point of view, you are consorting with death. Everything that is old and close to death is brittle and breaks apart including our thinking. So always stay flexible and soft and listen to others with caring. And truthfully, all of the verses hit me - especially when you think about them for days, and then write on them.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

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

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life and dry in brittle in death So the soft and supple are the companion of life While the stiff and unyielding are the companions of death An army that cannot yield will be defeated A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind Thus by Nature's own decree the hard and strong are defeated while the soft and gentle are triumphant

What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

Bend and you will be straight.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

My policy is to have no policy.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

The rigid tree will be felled.

What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.

Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life.

He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.

The hard and stiff will be broken.The soft and supple will prevail.

Adopt the attitude that everything is negotiable. A world of opportunity will greet you.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.