Thinking Flexibly
Changing perspectives, generating alternatives, considering options. Look at it another way!
| A truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can equally embrace great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
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| If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Robert Anthony, Author
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| I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
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| So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.
Mother Maribel
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| Embrace change. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.
Odette Pollar, speaker and author
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| 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.
B. H. Liddell Hart, military strategist
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| Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Nolan Ryan, Hall of Fame Baseball player
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| Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
-Charles M. Schulz, Creator of Peanuts
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| Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
Gordon W. Allport
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| Remember, the reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
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| A permanent state of transition is man’s most noble condition
Jaun Ramon Jimenez
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| The absurd man is he who never changes.
Auguste Barthélémy
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| Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric
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| If you don’t take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.
Winston Churchill
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| When it comes to changes, people like only those they make themselves.
French Proverb
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| A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber
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| When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instinct is, 'I'm going to prove you wrong.'
Picabo Street, Olympic gold medalist
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| The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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| The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.
James Yorke, mathematics and physics professor
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| Conflict is best seen as an opportunity to understand our differences, since that’s when conflict usually arises; when we see something differently.
Tony Dungy, retired football coach, author Uncommon
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View Quotes:
- Persisting
- Managing Impulsivity
- Listening with Understanding and Empathy
- Thinking Flexibly
- Thinking About Thinking (Metacognition)
- Striving for Accuracy
- Questioning and Posing Problems
- Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
- Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision
- Gathering Data Through All Senses
- Creating, Imagining, Innovating
- Responding with Wonderment and Awe
- Finding Humor
- Taking Responsible Risks
- Thinking Interdependently
- Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
- About the Habits of Mind
- Modelling Habits of Mind
