flexibility

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

Don__ ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

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

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.

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.

Be flexible and adapt easily to new things

Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility.

That which yields is not always weak.

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

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity _ as though it were another mask.

Pull approaches differ significantly from push approaches in terms of how they organize and manage resources. Push approaches are typified by "programs" - tightly scripted specifications of activities designed to be invoked by known parties in pre-determined contexts. Of course, we don't mean that all push approaches are software programs - we are using this as a broader metaphor to describe one way of organizing activities and resources. Think of thick process manuals in most enterprises or standardized curricula in most primary and secondary educational institutions, not to mention the programming of network television, and you will see that institutions heavily rely on programs of many types to deliver resources in pre-determined contexts.Pull approaches, in contrast, tend to be implemented on "platforms" designed to flexibly accommodate diverse providers and consumers of resources. These platforms are much more open-ended and designed to evolve based on the learning and changing needs of the participants. Once again, we do not mean to use platforms in the literal sense of a tangible foundation, but in a broader, metaphorical sense to describe frameworks for orchestrating a set of resources that can be configured quickly and easily to serve a broad range of needs. Think of Expedia's travel service or the emergency ward of a hospital and you will see the contrast with the hard-wired push programs.