Mental Adaptability Quotes

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it. It is also true about weather that you can’t control it; you can’t say if I wish hard enough it won’t rain. It is equally true that if the weather is bad one day it will get better and what I had to learn was to treat my moods like the weather.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.

As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up. If I make it ten years - if I just wait - the conclusion might be something totally different. I think it's so cool to do things in which you discover the malleability of your own mind.

I think playing multiple sports is by far the best way to go. You're talking about different teammates, different skill sets, different mentalities.

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.