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• 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.

  Robin McKinley

  Odds, People, Needs

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

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Choices, World, Changed

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• The exercises helped get the flexibility back in my ankle and also increased my overall flexibility. As I was getting into my 30s, I wanted to do everything I could to improve my longevity.

  Karch Kiraly

  Exercise, Ankles, Longevity

  Source: www.stack.com

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

  Brian Tracy

  Quality, Great Change

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Oct 16, 2013

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• If you take a wrong step but you're still in that football position, you can just react and change directions. I think for the most part young guys need to work on their football position. Get in their stance and hold it as long as possible. Work on your flexibility, especially in the hips, so you can hold that longer. A good football position will help you be more mobile and give you better leverage in the trenches.

  Brandon Spikes

  Football, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• 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.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Thoughtful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People are taking a closer look at Donald Trump. I think the best look they got was at the last debate. I think Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio prosecuted their case effectively. Donald doesn't have some great answers. When they talk, for instance, about immigration and releasing those tapes from The New York Times, we began talking about flexibility and immigration.

  Mitt Romney

  New York, Thinking, Talking

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• Flexibility. Oh, that's pretty clearly saying that what Donald Trump said to The New York Times is very different than what he's saying to the American people. He is not the real deal. He is a phony.

  Mitt Romney

  New York, Real, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

  Philippa Perry

  Creativity, Chaos, Steering

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't think every African-American or Latino have the same body type, but, yes, that's been one of the excuses ... saying that African-Americans are too muscular or just aren't lean enough. Usually they say, "Oh, they have flat feet so they just don't have the flexibility that it takes to create the line in a point shoe."

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Shoes, Feet

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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.

  Michael Crichton

  Teaching, Animal, Dna

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

  Bryan Kest

  Yoga, Practice, Enlightenment

  "My Affair with/Addiction to Yoga" by Marjorie Hope Rothstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• For me, it works best to plan just enough to come up with a good direction to head out in. Then I start down the path as soon as I can, without a very clear idea of what exactly I'm going to end up with. I try to leave a lot of time for flexibility and play and changing direction.

  Damian Kulash

  Ideas, Play, Trying

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• As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

  Doc Childre

  Beauty, Musician, Jazz

  Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (2000). “From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance”, p.192, HeartMath

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• Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

  Jane Fonda

  Three, Capacity, Stools

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

  David Cameron

  Able, Speed, Rigidity

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• 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.

  David Brooks

  Two, People, Reform

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Paul Ryan

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In most instances, at all costs, do NOT check a bag. Especially during the holiday season. You have more flexibility to switch flights, switch airlines or even leave the airport and get a rental car to drive to your next destination. If the airline has your bag, they also have you.

  Beth Mowins

  Holiday, Airports, Car

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• 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.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, Tasks, Way

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.81, Vintage

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• 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.

  Martin Schulz

  Taken, Equal Pay, Bridges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Giving, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional structures that support them are now relegated to the imperatives of privatization, deregulation, flexibility and short-term profits.

  Henry Giroux

  Long, People, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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.

  Clara Jeffery

  Diving Deep, Giving, Stories

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 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.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Chance, Negotiation

  Source: www.rt.com

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