Thinking Flexibly Quotes

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

When you're through changing you're through.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

I dwell in possibility.

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have lost their flexibility, is the art of handling the same bundle of data as before, but placing them in a new system of relations with one another by giving them a different framework, all of which virtually means putting on a different kind of thinking-cap for the moment. It is easy to teach anybody a new fact...but it needs light from heaven above to enable a teacher to break the old framework in which the student is accustomed to seeing.