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“If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.”

Ifs Littles Motivational Commitment Lifetime Perseverance Accomplish Flexibility Flexible Inspirational Perseverance

“One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”

People Should Mind Stories Pain Science Fiction Accepting Roles Politician Future Science Fiction Flexibility Detectives Without Pain Detective Stories

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.”

Play Humor Creativity Discovery Innovation Invention Dull Openness Mastery Flexibility Hinder Playing Games Work And Play Work Play All Work And No Play

Book:Our wildest dreams: women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good

Source: Our wildest dreams: women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good

“It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics can lead to conclusions which are diametrically opposite to one another.”

Helping Law Science Logic Opposites Mathematics Casts Conclusion Iron Flexibility Infallible Exact Sciences

Author:Vasco Ronchi

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”

Water Taoism Annoying Flexibility Flexible Enlightening Chinese Philosopher

Author:Laozi

“My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.”

People Has Beens Company Careers Skills Smart Planning Flexibility

Author:Justin Kan

“The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.”

Known Circumstances Machines Chess Titles Sufficient Flexibility Altered Admiring Drawbacks

Author:Max Euwe

“The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.”

Way Want Firsts May Self Growth Grace Ego Apocalypse Flexibility Along For The Ride

Book:2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

“Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.”

“Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.”

Life Water Opposites Flexibility Life Death Rigidity Indicators Signs Of Life

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.”

“Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.”

Difficult Creative Circumstances Flexibility Difficult Circumstances

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.”

Flexibility Quartets

Author:Boz Scaggs

“Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.”

Process Goal Clear Achieve Flexibility Flexible

Author:Brian Tracy

“Running water never grows stale.”

Running Grows Water Flexibility Stale Running Water Flowing Water

Book:Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art

Source: Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art

“The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.”

Children Moments Habit Window Sells Shopping New Things Flexibility Marketers

Author:Charles Duhigg

“Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand - some better, some worse than others - but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is what builds character. And with great character comes great reward.”

World Important Different Play Character Hands This World Rewards Endurance Flexibility Great Character Great Reward

Author:Christine Ha

“Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.”

Values Leader Honor Core Flexibility Flexible Core Values

Author:Colin Powell

“Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.”

Humans May Music Communication Activity Speech Prepared Ancestor Flexibility Cognitive

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.”

People Trying Use Purpose Enjoy Focus Movement Adventure Skills Rivers Currents Abandon Have Faith Flexibility Rushing Swimmer

Book:Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed

Source: Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed

“The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.”

Way Needs Enough Use Would Be Able Generations Tests Documents Flexibility Test Of Time

Author:Diane Wood

“It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.”

Book Interesting Industry Publishing Flexibility Music Industry Ipads Publishing Industry Book Publishing

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

“Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed.”

Life Joy Amazed Flexibility Flexible

Author:Jason Kravitz

“It's easier to think outside the box if you don't draw one around yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Creativity Easier Draws Boxes Flexibility Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Jason Kravitz

“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”

Inspirational Vision Details Mature Stubborn Flexibility Flexible

Author:Jeff Bezos

“An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.”

Results Leader Circumstances Demand Exception Flexibility Exceptional Exception To The Rule

Author:John Wooden

“Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.”

Persons Winning Aspect Response Flexibility Open Minded Aspects Of Life

Book:Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and put to Wrok for Donald Trump

Source: Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and put to Wrok for Donald Trump

“Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.”

Humans Form Humanity Expression Transformation Intuition Cosmos Flexibility Stewardship Stirring

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.”

Trying Two Two Things Openness Flexibility

Author:Lili Taylor

“It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.”

Want Character Stories Fun Situation Flexibility

Author:Margaret Haddix

“When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.”

Writing Wells Bad Things Flexibility

Author:Margaret Haddix

“I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.”

“You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.”

Ifs Moving Phases Flexibility Baggage

Author:Patrick Read Johnson

“Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.”

People Ifs Life Wells Reason Facts Helping School Jobs Asks Answers Attitude Succeed Come Up No Reason Accountability Flexibility Right Answers

Author:Ray Dalio

“Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to what there is to know and recognize that they might be wrong. Closed-minded people always tell you what they know, even if they know hardly anything about the subject being discussed. They are typically made uncomfortable by being around those who know a lot more about a subject, unlike open-minded people who are thrilled by such company.”

People Ifs Knows Littles Made Might Realizing Company Subjects Relation Asking Uncomfortable Flexibility Open Minded Asking Questions Closed Minded

Author:Ray Dalio

“However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.”

Years Community Property Accepted Disorder Relevant Flexibility

Author:Robert Huber

“Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape!”

Shapes Blessed Bent Flexibility Flexible

Author:Robert Ludlum

“Flexibility is a requirement for survival.”

Survival Requirements Flexibility

Book:Whack on the Side of the Head

Source: Whack on the Side of the Head

“When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.”

Way Different Play Character Roles Five Different Ways Flexibility

Author:Simon Baker

“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.”

Today Lessons Architecture Relevant Flexibility

Author:Stephen Gardiner

“Be firm on principle but flexible on method.”

Principles Method Firm Flexibility Flexible

Author:Zig Ziglar

“There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat.”

Drink Smoke Diets Flexibility Coke Diet Coke

Author:John Daly

“Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.”

Ifs Lost Power Speed Cease Endurance Flexibility Maximum

Author:Bruce Lee

“A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.”

Ifs Men May Hard Strong Force Powerful Power Movement Increase Remains Athlete Speed Faster Muscles Swings Pulling Flexibility

Author:Bruce Lee

“One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.”

Way Should Mean Important Force Natural Power Harmony Important Things Speed Opposition Spontaneous Strain Flexibility

Book:Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art

Source: Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art

“The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.”

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.”

Thinking Rocks Prepared Flexibility

Author:Billy Corgan

“Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.”

Way Character Use Expression Speech Robots Flexibility Good Way

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. And I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election. After the election, he'll get more backbone.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.”

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