Malcolm X Quotes

Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

There are people who have been in this game much longer than myself. And one of the things that I've learned by way of just watching is to stay flexible because you never know what may pop up.

Always plan, but never plan on your plans.

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

I am a feather for each wind that blows

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.

Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning how to dialog with each other without any past strategy or any kind of formula from the past.

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

Ensure that your life stays in flux.

We have to be prepared for change.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.