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• 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.

  Ray Dalio

  Asking Questions, People, Littles

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• Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

  Richard Schmid

  Order, Elements, May

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• 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.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Love, Life, Family

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• This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

  Barack Obama

  Lasts, Election

  "The Real Story Behind the Obama-Medvedev Hot-Mic Moment" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Empty Mind, Water

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

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• Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

  Samantha Stosur

  Yoga, Training, Use

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• I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Purpose, Want, Form

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

  Lili Taylor

  Two, Trying, Openness

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

  Anthony Lawlor

  Life, Opposites, Water

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• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest.

  Jack LaLanne

  Focus, Energy, Problem

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• Some actors come to casting and ask me, "Didn't you see my previous roles?" We do not work with actors like this. Their previous roles do not matter; I need the actual work with an actor in this particular character that has been written in our script. What matters is flexibility, believability and efficiency of an actor.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Character, Efficiency, Ask Me

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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.

  Saul Bellow

  Who We Are, Life Is, Longing

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

  Margaret Drabble

  People, Efficient, Flexible

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Stephen Gardiner

  Lessons, Today, Architecture

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• Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge  ome  trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense  e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.

  Blaise Pascal

  Views, Two, Mind

  c.1653 Discours sur les passions de l'amour (Discourse on the Passions of Love).This is usually attributed to Pascal.

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

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Perseverance, Commitment

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 18, 2012

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• The hearts of the great can be changed.

  Homer

  Heart, Changed

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.336, University of Chicago Press

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• The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.

  Roger von Oech

  Wall, People, Goal

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

  Gary Larson

  Teacher, Strong, School

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• 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.

  Diane Wood

  Able, Way, Would Be

  "Chicago judge's record rates highly among progressives, colleagues" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2010.

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• The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Ease, Forget

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.566, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Michael K. Simpson

  Player, Allies, Diplomatic Relations

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• 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.

  Margaret Haddix

  Fun, Character, Stories

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• Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

  Eric Maisel

  Alternatives, Circumstances, Turns

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

  Zubin Mehta

  Advice, Umbrella, Ready

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