Flexibility Quotes - Page 6

• Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Character, Ugly

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• We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck

  Philippa Perry

  Filters, Needs, Looks

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• A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

  Dean Koontz

  Imagination, Mind, Might

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.70, Bantam

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

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• God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Mother, Brave

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• Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Dwelling, Breathing

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• That which yields is not always weak.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Yield, Weak, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2007). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.467, Macmillan

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• When Barack Obama was caught telling Dmitry Medvedev, "Tell Vlad to be patient. We'll get rid of our nukes after I win reelection and I'll have more flexibility." That was in 2012, right before the election.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Patient, Election

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Pentagon is constantly adjusting tactics because they have the flexibility from the White House to do so. The strategy is to help the Iraqi people achieve their objectives and their dreams, which is a democratic society. That's the strategy. The tactics it's important that we stay there and get it done; or we leave. We're not leaving so long as I'm the president. That would be a huge mistake.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Mistake, Long

  "Denver broadcast outlets covered news conference but failed to report on Bush's stated intention to maintain troops in Iraq through his presidency". www.mediamatters.org. August 24, 2006.

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• What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Earth, Way

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• Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other people's point of view, you are consorting with death. Everything that is old and close to death is brittle and breaks apart including our thinking. So always stay flexible and soft and listen to others with caring. And truthfully, all of the verses hit me - especially when you think about them for days, and then write on them.

  Wayne Dyer

  Writing, Caring, Thinking

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

  Conor Oberst

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

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• Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Giving, Fuel, Electricity

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• I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

  Todd Barry

  Jobs, Asking, Time Off

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• Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

  David Cameron

  Men, Europe, Land

  "British PM says stick with EU but promises referendum". "AM" with Rachael Brown, www.abc.net.au. January 24, 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. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.

  David Cameron

  Country, Able, Facts

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• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

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

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Rocks, Prepared

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• Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

  William Hague

  World, Opponents, Conflict

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• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Struggle, Simple, Two

  "Celebrating Family and Medical Leave Act With Family Values" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2013.

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• To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Attitude, Differences, Numbers

  "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

  Ayana Mathis

  Character, Voice, Creating

  "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Reality, Men

  Letter written following his Hajj, 1964.

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• My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Machines, Popularity, Richness

  "Wynton Marsalis Toots His Own Horn". Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, www.ebony.com. October 8, 2013.

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• We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Creative, Different, Needs

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