Flannery O'Connor Quotes

The most important thing is not to be dogmatic but flexible and consistent.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Steadfastness should net be confused with stubbornness.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never does.

Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

I'm comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I'm like a chameleon. If a country doesn't have Internet, then I get used to not having the Internet. I could basically live anywhere. I'm a nomad at heart. Nothing is more boring than monotony.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

Flexibility is the key to stability.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.