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Flexibility is the ability to change

• Flexibility: The quality of bending easily without breaking.  Oxford Dictionary
• Flexibility: Willingness to change or compromise. Oxford Dictionary
• Flexibility: The quality of being able to change or be changed easily according to the situation. Cambridge Dictionary
• Flexibility: Susceptible of modification or adaptation; adaptable.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Flexibility: Easily changed: able to change or to do different things. Merriam Webster
• Flexibility: Willing to change or to try different things.  Merriam Webster
• Change,  Adaptability,  Compromise,  Resilience,  Open-mindedness,  Openness

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Flexibility is about open mindedness and tolerance

• Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives. Deborah Day
• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir
• I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself. I choose to be flexible in my dealings with those around me.  I understand that my way is not the only way – that inner peace comes from respecting the ways of others, and that, if I am open, I may gain great insights and happiness from the ideas and traditions of others.  Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• Open-mindedness,  Tolerance

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Flexibility is a measure of intelligence

• Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. Vernor Vinge
• The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. Albert Einstein
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Flexibility is essential in today’s fast changing world…

• Flexibility is the most important single quality you can develop to survive and thrive in the twenty- first century. Flexibility entails openness, receptivity, and the willingness to try new methods and techniques. Flexibility means that you practice zero- based thinking continually. Brian Tracy
• A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability! Evinda Lepins
• Haste,   Busyness

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… and will become even more so in the future

• 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 quotes

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Flexibility is a requirement for survival…

• Flexibility is a requirement for survival. Roger Von Oech
• Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard… Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. Lao Tzu

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… and a requirement for progress

• If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.  John Wooden
• If you are truly flexible and go until… there is really very little you can’t accomplish in your lifetime. Tony Robbins
• Flexibility — In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses “wins.” Kelly Perdew
• Progress

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Flexibility is a sign of strength, not weakness

• Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell- out. Paul Kagame
• That which yields is not always weak. Jacqueline Carey
• Strength,  Weakness

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Better to bend than to break

• Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape. Michael McGriffy
• The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance. Jodi Picoult
• Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. Albert Camus
• Better to bend than to break. Scottish Proverb
• An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots. Aesop
• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Be flexible like water

• 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. Lao Tzu
• Imagine flexibility as the river that flows between the banks of chaos and rigidity. How can you be more flexible today? In what ways are you TOO planned and therefore rigid? In what ways are you TOO spontaneous and therefore chaotic? Find the flow. Stay open, receptive and willing to try new methods and techniques. Brian Johnson
• Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death. Anthony Lawlor
• Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee
• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. Lao Tzu
• Water,  Lessons from water

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Be firm on principle but flexible on method

• Be firm on principle but flexible on method. Zig Ziglar
• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times. Everett Mckinley Dirkson
• Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them. Colin Powell
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Stay committed to decisions and goals but stay flexible in approach

• Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Tom Robbins quotes
• Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it. Brian Tracy
• Goal setting,  Decision making

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Have plans but make them flexible

• You have to have a plan and it’s important to stick to it, but it should be flexible too. Barbara Saunders
• Get organised. Know where you are headed. But if something wonderful and unexpected comes along, be flexible enough to follow it.   Jackson Brown, Jr.
• It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.  Publilius Syrus
• We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joesph Campbell
• We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.  John Wooden
• The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. James Yorke
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Have rules, but don’t be a slave to them

• An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands. John Wooden
• You want to set rules, but with a lot of flexibility. Frederic Mishkin
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• Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed. Jason Kravitz
• The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. Brian Greene
• The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher. Chinese Proverb
• There are two types of minds – the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the dive. Blaise Pascal
• I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. Emma Bonino
• Bending beats breaking. Betty Greene
• If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them. Ardant du Picq

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• Blessed are the flexible, for they can tie themselves into knots.
• Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles the first of which is to be flexible at all times.  Everett Dirksen
• I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary. Betsy Cañas Garmon
• Labels? Okay, fine.  I’m bisensual.    And life-curious.  That about covers it.  Morgan Torva

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