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Thinking Flexibly

Changing perspectives, generating alternatives, considering options. Look at it another way!
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.
John Cage
It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.
Latin proverb
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you've got.
Alain (Emile August Chartier)
It's a mighty poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't and dead men can't.
John H. Patterson
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
Aldous Huxley
Unless you change how you are, you'll always have what you've got.
Jim Rohn, Speaker and Author
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know.
Eric Allenbaugh
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey Madan
There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.
William Shakespeare King Lear
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.
Albert Einstein
Team members need to be able to suspend disbelief, think the unthinkable, and let intuition and premonitions flow freely. Therefore, a necessary skill in team members is tolerance for ambiguity.
Kees van der Heijden
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Leguin
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Change is fun and exciting and, like a haircut, looks funny at first; but once you get used to it, it's great.
Anne Blair
New frameworks are like climbing a mountain--the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the earlier, more restricted view.
Albert Einstein
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Kenny Rogers
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