Thinking Flexibly Quotes

• There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Perception, Prison

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• If you never change your mind, why have one?

  Edward de Bono

  Motivational, Depression, Mind

  Edward de Bono (2010). “How To Have A Beautiful Mind”, p.166, Random House

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• Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

  Morarji Desai

  Life, Change, Gratitude

  "Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline?" by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, (p. 44), 2014.

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• You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

  Edgar Magnin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Horizon

  Edgar Fogel Magnin (1951). “How to live a richer & fuller life”

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• Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Knowledge

  Voltaire (1762). “Works”, p.114

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• In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

  Edward de Bono

  Cost, Strive, Be Prepared

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Views, Opinion, Wells

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• Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

  Gordon Allport

  Thinking, Prejudice, Exposed

  Gordon Allport (1968). “The Person In Psychology”

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• If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Hands, Throat

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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

  Thinking, Next Steps, Should

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• When you're through changing you're through.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "On the Story" with Mary Snow, edition.cnn.com. August 27, 2005.

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• Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wisdom, Consistency, Mind

  'Do What You Will' (1929) 'Wordsworth in the Tropics'

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• The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Sunset, Dust, May

  'Livre sans nom: Twelve Reflections' (privately printed 1934) no. 12

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• Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have lost their flexibility, is the art of handling the same bundle of data as before, but placing them in a new system of relations with one another by giving them a different framework, all of which virtually means putting on a different kind of thinking-cap for the moment. It is easy to teach anybody a new fact...but it needs light from heaven above to enable a teacher to break the old framework in which the student is accustomed to seeing.

  Arthur Koestler

  Teacher, Art, Mean

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• Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Errors, Long

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• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

  Hugh Prather

  Change, Life Changing, Live Life

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

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• I dwell in possibility.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Recovery, Addiction

  "I dwell in possibility" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• 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

  Thinking, Desire, Different

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