Flexibility Quotes - Page 17

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

Northrop Frye

Language, Surrender, Metaphor

"The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

Doris Lessing

Party, Reality, People

"A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

Matthew Arnold

Mind, Quality, Prejudice

"Irish Essays. A Speech at Eton" by Matthew Arnold, 1882.

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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.

Ari Marcopoulos

Country, People, Perspective

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

Jimmy Carter

People, Generosity, Degrees

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We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

Rick Perry

Education, School, Sacrifice

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Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They're looking at their next start or their next at-bat.

Terry Francona

Player, Bats, Looks

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To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Military, War, Should Have

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It gives us a lot of versatility and flexibility. Looking ahead, we've got a lot of good young players coming through the system. As they make their way, we'll have some tough decisions down the road. I'm just glad to have this one bat in our lineup that can drive in 100 runs, hit 25 to 30 home runs at least, and in our ballpark, maybe more.

Tim Purpura

Running, Home, Player

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The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.

Tim Bray

Community, Risk, Cost

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Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.

Jeff Bezos

Book, Technology, Giving

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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.

Paul Saffo

Creativity, People, Google

Source: www.sfgate.com

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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.

Jack Welch

Balance, Ifs

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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.

Bernie Sanders

War, Numbers, Issues

Source: www.ebony.com

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Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.

Ernie J Zelinski

Change, Taoism, Earth

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The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.

Lionel Trilling

Attitude, Believe, Men

"The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.

Clint Eastwood

Mistake, Air, Next Week

"The Films of Clint Eastwood". Book by Boris Zmijewsky and Lee Pfeiffer, 1982.

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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

William Hazlitt

Presence Of Mind, Expression, Ideas

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Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client.

Joan Rivers

Wise, Mean, Thinking

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I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.

Willem Dafoe

Games, People, Important

"Willem Dafoe Talks OUT OF THE FURNACE, Playing Conflicted Characters, Bringing an Eastern European Flair to His Character, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 6, 2013.

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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.

Mary Portas

Believe, Successful, Long

Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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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.

John Thune

Thinking, Medicare

Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

Tsai Ing-wen

Thinking, People, Appreciate

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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