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  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.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Flexibility is one of the main roads leading to happiness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness

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

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Creative, Difficult, Circumstances

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• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

  Everett Dirksen

  Leadership, Business, Men

  Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.

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• 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.

  Andrea Jung

  Success, Leadership, Heart

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• The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leader, Style, Circumstances

  Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Jim Collins, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman (2017). “HBR Classics Boxed Set (16 Books)”, p.262, Harvard Business Press

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• Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

  Zig Ziglar

  Principles, Method, Firm

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Mar 04, 2013

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Expression, Play

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• You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

  Chalene Johnson

  Motivation, Personality, Progress

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• The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

  Brian Tracy

  Track, Definitions, Might

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• Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

  Bruce Lee

  Blank Mind, Empty Mind, Water

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.138, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Bamboo, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

  Brian Greene

  Asking, Answers, May

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.108, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Indecision is the key to flexibility.

  Kathy Reichs

  Keys, Indecision, Uncertainty

  Kathy Reichs (2006). “Break No Bones: A Novel”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Power, Important

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.119, Tuttle Publishing

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• Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

  Robert Dilts

  Multiple Choice, Perspective, Choices

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• To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Acceptance, Love Is, Understanding

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• 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.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Adventure, Skills, Rivers

  David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.135, Image

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• 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.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Jobs, Attitude

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

  John Wooden

  Exception To The Rule, Leader, Demand

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

  Kelly Perdew

  Winning, Open Minded, Aspect

  Kelly Perdew (2013). “Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and put to Wrok for Donald Trump”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• Bend and you will be straight.

  Laozi

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

  Eric Shinseki

  Inspirational, Change, Irrelevance

  "No Longer a Soldier, Shinseki Has a New Mission". Article by James Dao, Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2009.

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• True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Muscles

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Math, Views

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