Aldous Harding Quotes

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

I become a chameleon for wherever I am.

I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

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

I'm pretty versatile. I'm able to adapt to an environment and the way I view things based on who I'm with.

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

I've learned in my life that things change. Seasons changes, times change. We take different jobs. Our children grow. So, we have to study the people in our lives and adapt to them, because when we do that, we get more out of our relationships.

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

I have been taught by experience, and never hesitate to sacrifice personal feeling to the requirements of the hour.

It takes intellectual stamina to stay open, as a leader and a mind, to absorb information and adversity.

You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.

Me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

I'm interested in psychology and how your surroundings can influence your character, and because of that, I think I try and take the very best from a situation, good or bad, and constantly work on myself.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.