#flexibility

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#democracy #flexibility #roosevelt #supreme-court #art

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#flexibility #intelligence #open-mindedness #wisdom #change

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#flexibility #humorous #personal-development #personality #self

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

#connection #flexibility #music #people #communication

To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#flexibility #ideas #change

If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#flexibility #stubbornness #experience

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#resilience #sisters

That which yields is not always weak. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#flexibility #weakness

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#flexibility #had #industry #interesting #ipad

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning. ↗