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“My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.”

Giving Trying Sometimes Feelings Might Sound Half My Favorite Capture Rhyme Flexibility Vowels

Author:Conor Oberst

“There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.”

Humans Life Is Human Beings Accounts Longing Painful This Life Who We Are Immense Flexibility Flexible Comprehensive

Book:There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

“Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.”

Care Today Quality Greater Higher Demand Standards Checks Treatment Flexibility Convenience Prevention Screening Higher Standards

Author:Lucy Powell

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Citizens Constitution Fellows Abortion Good Ideas Penalties Flexibility Death Penalty

Author:Antonin Scalia

“I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.”

Made Running Sound Hours Week Balance Percent Yoga Hot Train Everyday Flexibility Surf Lame Skates Days Of The Week Hot Yoga Biometrics

Author:Ryan Sheckler

“Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.”

Deals Player Relation Allies Flexibility Diplomatic Conducting Diplomatic Relations

Author:Michael K. Simpson

“Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.”

Giving Fuel Expensive Electricity Flexibility Transport

Author:Frederick W. Smith

“I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.”

Characteristics Feminine Flexibility

Author:Emma Bonino

“In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.”

Ifs Deals Cost Prepared Strive Various Appropriate Be Prepared Flexibility Flexible Thinking Flexibly

Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”

“God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.”

Knows Needs Humans Soul Mother Mom Aspect Brave Tolerance Flexibility Fortitude God Knows Human Soul Firmness

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

Inspirational Wisdom Understanding Change Ability Intelligence Life Changing Flexibility Adaptation Open Minded Smart People Really Smart Ability To Change Ability To Adapt Adapting To Change Intelligence And Education National Intelligence

Author:Albert Einstein

“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

Knows Mind Moments Body Meditation Calm Buddhist Breathing Present Moment Flexibility Mind And Body Dwelling I Smile Peace Is Every Step Prana Pranayama

Author:Nhat Hanh

“What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?”

Ifs Men Way Earth Flexibility

Author:H. G. Wells

“A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness”

Mind Might Imagination Deals Madness Flexibility Phenomenal

Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

“That which yields is not always weak.”

Weak Yield Flexibility Kushiel's Dart

Book:Kushiel's Avatar

Source: Kushiel's Avatar

“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.”

Body Next Animal Generations Teaching Higher Cost Behavior Complexes Determined Dna Flexibility Adaptation Next Generation Dependency Adaptive

Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”

Firsts Believe Humans Capacity Burden Glances Flexibility Flexible Human Capacity My Sister's Keeper Bamboo Sisters Keeper

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.”

World Values Choices Changed Flexibility

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.”

People Needs Plans Presses Assuming Knees Odds Flexibility Enchanted Never Assume

Author:Robin McKinley

“There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.”

Source: The path to power

“Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.”

Men America Choices Economy Land Demand Europe Driven Rising Openness Asia Flexibility North America Competitiveness Fetch

Author:David Cameron

“The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.”

Want Country Facts Able Levels Fit Approach Size Speed Integration Flexibility Insistence Rigidity One Size Fits All

Author:David Cameron

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

“He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.”

Men Years Wells May Might Sensible Honored Flexibility Pious Congregation

Book:Schindler's List

Source: Schindler's List

“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”

Life Is Order Insane Bridges Sane Steel Flexibility

Book:The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”

Flexibility

Book:A Fire Upon The Deep

Source: A Fire Upon The Deep

“There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.”

Character Might Taken Opposites Flexibility

Book:The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Normal and I parted ways when Pateir1ch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic, moves like smoke, and lives alone in a supersecret, superswanky studio beneath Delphic Amusement Park. The sound of his voice, low and sexy, can melt my heart in three seconds flat. He’s also a fallen angel, kicked out of heaven for his flexibility when it comes to following rules. I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.”

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.”

Past History Happened Flexibility Flexible Recollection

Author:Peter L. Berger

“Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.”

Way Poetry Communication Constant Poetry Is Openness Flexibility Readiness

Author:Fleur Adcock

“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.”

Knows World Way Strong Water Can Do Power Overcoming Firm Flexibility Flexible Water Resources Adamant Stagnant Water Rushing Water

Author:Laozi

“Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.”

World Giving Mind Used Strong Strength Exercise Athlete Oil Manners Preparation Flexibility Being Strong

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.”

Inspirational Soul Strong Can Do Imagine Building Stronger Your Soul Flexibility Being Strong Your Strong

Author:Carlos Barrios

“If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.”

Ifs Inspirational Growth Change Innovation Flexibility Don't Change Starting Anew Irrelevance

Author:Eric Shinseki

“Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?”

Animal Skins Welfare Flexibility Animal Welfare Stunned

Author:Marianne Moore

“Pray Meditate Be aware.Stay awake Bow Practise yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax.Enjoy.Laugh.Play Create.Envision Let Go/Forgive.Accept Walk.Exercise.Move Work.Serve.Contribute Listen/Learn.Enquire Consider.Reflect Cultivate oneself.Enhance competencies Cultivate contentment Cultivate flexibility Cultivate friendship and collaboration Lighten up Celebrate and appreciate Dream Give thanks Evolve Love Share.Give.Receive Walk softly.Live gently Expand.Radiate.Dissolve Simplify Surrender.Trust Be born anew”

“Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.”

Moments Humility Flexibility

Author:Bruce Lee

“No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn't give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.”

Giving Enough Tough Immigration Aliens Illegal Flexibility Illegal Immigration Amnesty Illegal Aliens Legal Immigration

Author:Charles Schumer

“I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.”

Has Beens Teacher Teaching Mature Sensitivity Flexibility Great Teacher New Experiences Being A Teacher New Teachers

Author:W. Howard Lester

“If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.”

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.”

Mind Wells Persons Belief Lost Brain Resources Ill Suicidal Flexibility Quickness

Book:Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.”

World Today Materials Tomorrow Mountain Conscience Hills Flexibility Flexible World Today Moles

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can build a lot of character, strength, flexibility, and courage. Hopefully, they can also develop a sense of fearlessness.”

Ifs Different Character Kids Age Class Hopefully Different Things Flexibility Gymnastics Fearlessness

Author:Nastia Liukin

“Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.”

Life Is Suffering Alive Movement Buddhism Flexibility Fluid

Author:Arnaud Desjardins

“The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.”

Might Understanding Awareness Keys Conversation Flexibility

Author:Deborah Tannen

“God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.”

Knows Needs Humans Children Soul Enough Seems Happens Mother Parent Women Virtue Aspect Praise Brave Motherhood Tolerance Flexibility Fortitude God Knows Human Soul Firmness

Author:Phyllis McGinley

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