Quotes on flexibility

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.

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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.

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A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability!

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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

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I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out.

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