{"quotes":[{"text":"He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["flexibility","hypocrisy","self-discipline"],"id":4468,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"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 to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.","author":"Joseph Joubert","tags":["flexibility","open-mindedness","thinking","thoughts"],"id":5281,"author_id":"Joseph+Joubert"},{"text":"Have the capacity to adapt to change, it's your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a key when you accept changes.","author":"Angelica Hopes","tags":["acceptance","changes","flexibility","growth","inspirational-living"],"id":6500,"author_id":"Angelica+Hopes"},{"text":"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["conditioning","flexibility","mind","sufis","sufism"],"id":7604,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"The writer as boxer says he develops by, 'learning from everyone who'll spar with me.","author":"Davis Miller","tags":["bitterness","curiosity","defensiveness","flexibility","maturation","openness"],"id":22403,"author_id":"Davis+Miller"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hiroko Sakai","tags":["flexibility","japanese","life","strength","willow"],"id":36348,"author_id":"Hiroko+Sakai"},{"text":"Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.","author":"Charles W. Colson","tags":["adaptability","discipleship","flexibility"],"id":38114,"author_id":"Charles+W.+Colson"},{"text":"Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.","author":"Harold Edmund Stearns","tags":["acceptance","adventure","america","civilization","desertion","emigration","experimentation","flexibility","freedom","idealism","institutionalized","looting","lost-generation","possibility","rebellion","revolt","status-quo","youth"],"id":38843,"author_id":"Harold+Edmund+Stearns"},{"text":"Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.","author":"Pearl Zhu","tags":["flexibility","innovation"],"id":78707,"author_id":"Pearl+Zhu"},{"text":"A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.","author":"Alexis de Tocqueville","tags":["accountability","adaptability","change","creativity","flexibility"],"id":78898,"author_id":"Alexis+de+Tocqueville"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}