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“There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices are more important now than ever to balance the boat.”

Important Spiritual Practice Balance Psychological Boat Flexibility Literal Spiritual Practice

Author:Brenda Strong

“An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.”

Moments Process Secret Consciousness Infinite Aging Ancient Immortality Aphorism Reverse Flexibility Aging Process

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.”

Children Play Wonder Laughing Expression Offers Openness Smallest Finest Flexibility

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.”

Thinking Weakness Sells Compromise Flexibility

Author:Paul Kagame

“The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some patterns - patterns in space and patterns in time - which we do amazingly well. Computers can do it, too, but not in anything like the same kind of flexibility.”

Wells Kind Able Can Do Space Brain Computer Patterns Compare Flexibility Analog

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.”

People Needs Company Team Design Huge Cost Behavior Lows Resources Experiments Thoughtful Flexibility Tapping Large Companies

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.”

Kind Today British Regulation Bureaucracy 80s Flexibility Education System

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.”

Ends Hands Today Feet Figures Possibility Painting Flexibility Going To Work

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.”

Knows Principles Good Things Core Flexibility Flexible

Author:Ted Cruz

“You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.”

People Two Common Figures Standards Core Reform Two Things Flexibility Education Reform Common Core National Standards

Author:David Brooks

“My people are at the core of everything I do, and I recognize the importance of giving them the flexibility to balance work around their personal lives.”

People Giving Balance Importance Core Personal Life Flexibility

Author:Richard Branson

“There is always a chance [for negotiations with Japan], or else it makes no sense to talk. How great is it? Right now, it is difficult for me to say, because this will depend, among other things, on the flexibility of our partners.”

Difficult Chance Depends Right Now Partners Japan Negotiation Flexibility

Author:Vladimir Putin

“We love the flexibility that print and digital formats give us, and diving deep on a print feature can be one step in a longer project that generates a lot of digital stories.”

Giving Stories Steps Projects Features Digital Print Flexibility Format Diving Diving Deep

Author:Clara Jeffery

“In our corporate culture, because someone may have to take some flexibility because of family issues, somehow we continue to believe they aren't fully dedicated.”

Believe May Culture Issues Corporate Dedicated Flexibility Corporate Culture Family Issues

Author:Sallie Krawcheck

“We think the administration can give us a lot of regulatory flexibility which will bring more insurers in the marketplace, which means more competition, more choice which drives down costs, so that discretion can work in a good way or it could work in a bad way.”

Thinking Way Giving Mean Choices Cost Competition Administration Flexibility Marketplace Discretion Good Way

Author:Paul Ryan

“We believe we can dramatically improve the way Medicaid works by giving governors more control and flexibility to innovate to make it work for people with low income because it`s not working in so many states right now.”

People Way Giving Believe States Right Now Lows Income Governors Flexibility Low Income Medicaid

Author:Paul Ryan

“It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.”

Knows Important Age Know How Teacher Students Comfortable Capable Manage Classroom Flexibility Contributing

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“We need to roll back precarious employment models. Temporary and limited contracts were initially seen as a way of introducing more flexibility so as to bridge periods of need in certain phases of production. Some employers have taken advantage of the model to push down wages. In general, we must strive for equal pay for equal work.”

“One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.”

Way Humans Kind Brain Tasks Features Flexibility Impressive Human Brain

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“I really, really do believe that the future of being successful in work is going to be about embracing all of those wonderful things women bring - empathy, collaboration, flexibility - all those wonderful feminine traits we've suppressed for too long.”

Believe Long Successful Wonderful Empathy Being Successful Feminine Collaboration Traits Flexibility Wonderful Things

Author:Mary Portas

“Google was the right set of people at the right time, and they ended up doing the right set of things. It's worth looking at how they are managed. They are network-oriented and allow a lot of flexibility and creativity.”

People Creativity Google Right Time Flexibility

Author:Paul Saffo

“We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting their lives destroyed by going to prison. We need to look at mandatory minimum sentencing and give judges more flexibility when there are issues of drug abuse or addiction.”

Needs Giving Looks War Ends Hard Numbers Issues Judging Drug Abuse Prison Addiction Violent Destroyed Minimum Flexibility War On Drugs Offenders Non Violent Drug Abuse

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country. There isn't much flexibility in changing people's perspectives.”

People Way Country Might Perspective Surprise Conservative Flexibility Holland Small Countries

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“External scouting is of limited value if it's not teamed with rigorous self- examination. Successful coaches or managers have learned the value of utilizing an outside opinion to give them a fresh look at their personnel. This unbiased view provides an even greater insight, which in turn helps the coach develop flexibility within the team.”

Giving Helping Values Opinion Successful Team Insight Coaches Flexibility Scouting

Author:Don Yaeger

“Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fresh air. But these ideas shouldn't only be for people who can afford to go to a museum or a symposium in the "better part of town."”

People Giving Culture Stuck Flexibility

Author:Mark Bradford

“I think the thing with Medicare - and a lot of this - I should say, with Medicaid - and this is going to depend - states are going to be in a position to have a lot of flexibility.”

Thinking Flexibility Medicare

Author:John Thune

“I think that Chairman Xi Jinping's courage tackling corruption is an important matter in the development of Chinese society. I also look forward to him showing a bit more flexibility in dealing with cross-strait relations. I hope that he can appreciate that Taiwan is a democratic society in which the leader has to follow the will of the people.”

People Thinking Important Leader Appreciate Relation Democratic Corruption Chinese Flexibility

Author:Tsai Ing-wen

“These qualities - things like deep listening, collaboration, flexibility, tapping into our emotions - seem to me to be the kinds of qualities that are intrinsic to women. I think that's the thing I'm most excited about: continuing to promote women in the workplace.”

Thinking Kind Emotion Quality Listening Excited Collaboration Workplace Flexibility

Author:Maureen Chiquet

“We need to remake and reinvent our housing system so that it supports the flexibility and mobility of our economic system broadly. Home-ownership is rewarded by the federal tax code, which made great sense when that piece of the American Dream, and all the consumption that came with it, was essential to rebuilding the economy. These days, however, it feels like a huge penalty to people who want to travel light within the new mobile economy without a mortgage to hold them back.”

People Dream Support Economy Economic Taxes Code American Dream Flexibility Mortgage It Support

Author:Richard Florida

“The most important thing about an astronaut is you have to take for a given a person's done pretty well in school, has the intelligence and all of that to learn new systems and new things. But after that, the most important thing I think is being able to get along with others. Flexibility and teamwork, those issues because as we fly longer and longer in space, those are really important factors, even on short shuttle missions, those are important factors, to put a crew together that can work together effectively as a team, that can get along.”

Thinking Important Done School Together Team Working Together Teamwork Flexibility Astronaut

Author:Leroy Chiao

“The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one could say about Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of a Shia state because that in itself is a blasphemy as far as most Shia clerics are concerned. There's a theory that he developed in the early 1960s in the town of Najaf talking about - well not liberalism, necessarily, but flexibility though.”

Concerned Islam Conservative Islamic Liberalism Flexibility 1960s Blasphemy

Author:Sadakat Kadri

“Today, people no longer go out with a total look or ensemble taken straight from the runway. Customers mix and match between labels and between price points. The idea is to create something for yourself: what you want, and how you want it. I realize that shoppers want more flexibility and choice now.”

People Today Choices Realizing Taken Flexibility

Author:Giorgio Armani

“The successful human being is adaptable. We have to adapt to changes in weather. We have to adapt to changes in climate. We have to adapt to changing economic circumstances. People that don't have the flexibility to adapt or who are afraid of change or who oppose it are going to be left behind.”

People Successful Economic Circumstances Flexibility Left Behind

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they use doesn't have any flexibility anymore.”

People World Language Rich Flexibility Rich People

Author:Bronson Pinchot

“Today, entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a new era in which organizations put talent at the heart of their business models. And they have no choice. Having grown up surrounded by entrepreneurial freedoms, workers expect flexibility. They insist on collaboration. They demand meaning. Creating an environment that brings out the entrepreneurial instincts in your workforce - a worldview we might call "employeeship"- is key.”

Heart Today Choices Environment Talent Entrepreneur Instinct Collaboration Flexibility Worldview Entrepreneurial

Author:Linda Rottenberg

“When Barack Obama was caught telling Dmitry Medvedev, "Tell Vlad to be patient. We'll get rid of our nukes after I win reelection and I'll have more flexibility." That was in 2012, right before the election.”

Winning Election Patient Barack Flexibility Be Patient

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other people's point of view, you are consorting with death. Everything that is old and close to death is brittle and breaks apart including our thinking. So always stay flexible and soft and listen to others with caring. And truthfully, all of the verses hit me - especially when you think about them for days, and then write on them.”

Thinking Writing Break Caring Point Of View Openness Verses Flexibility Softness Close To Death

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The Pentagon is constantly adjusting tactics because they have the flexibility from the White House to do so. The strategy is to help the Iraqi people achieve their objectives and their dreams, which is a democratic society. That's the strategy. The tactics it's important that we stay there and get it done; or we leave. We're not leaving so long as I'm the president. That would be a huge mistake.”

People Long Important Done Helping Dream House President Mistake Achieve Strategy Democratic Leaving Flexibility

Author:George W. Bush

“You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary motivation.”

Giving Motivation Photograph Flexibility

Author:Alec Soth

“Some actors come to casting and ask me, "Didn't you see my previous roles?" We do not work with actors like this. Their previous roles do not matter; I need the actual work with an actor in this particular character that has been written in our script. What matters is flexibility, believability and efficiency of an actor.”

Character Ask Me Efficiency Flexibility

Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev

“During my three years as chief economist of the World Bank, labor market issues were looked at through the lens of neoclassical economics. A standard message was to increase labor market flexibility. The not-so-subtle subtext was to lower wages and lay off unneeded workers.”

World Labor Economist Flexibility

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.”

Two Ends Parent Differences Simple Quality Poverty Struggle Policy Paid Remains Workplace Flexibility Antidote Affordable Paychecks Single Parent Childcare

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.”

Hours Differences Levels Numbers Attitude Quality Train Workers Managers Working It Flexibility Quality Work

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.”

Needs Should Problem Energy Sports Focus Keys Program Hips Thirty Zone Chests Flexibility

Author:Jack LaLanne

“Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.”

“My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.”

Loses Machines Popularity Flexibility Richness

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.”

Jobs Asking Flexibility Time Off

Author:Todd Barry

“We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.”

World Needs Different Done Difficult Term Company Creative Circumstances Offers Method Alternatives Employee Flexibility Different Worlds Work Done Difficult Circumstances

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”

Men Inspirational Helping Motivational Certain Courage Wind Failure Amount Determination Adversity Opposition Flexibility Overcoming Adversity Kites Adversity Motivational Rise Against

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.”

Thinking Stills Culture Acceptance Tradition Hollywood Males Attachment Los Angeles Flexibility

Author:Dee Dee Myers

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