Flexibility Quotes - Page 9

• Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Commitment, Generosity, Aristocracy

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• For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

  Russell Lynes

  Mirrors, Taste, Television

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• Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Giving, President

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• Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.

  Shantideva

  Trying, World, Sandals

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• In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Teacher, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Lucy Ward, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2005.

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• The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

  Tom Vilsack

  Government, Citizens, Healthcare

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• The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now it’s getting to the point where the story is beginning to delta back in, and the viewpoint characters are occasionally meeting up with each other now and being in the same point at the same time, which gives me a lot more flexibility for killing people.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, People

  "George R.R. Martin Teases Major Deaths In Next 'Game Of Thrones' Book" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. August 22, 2014.

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• It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

  Michal Kalecki

  Socialist Economy, Advantage, Characteristics

  Michal Kalecki (1971). “Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970”, p.97, CUP Archive

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• The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience.

  Philippe Kahn

  Perseverance, Keys, People

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• The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Challenges, Asana, Gains

  B. K. S. Iyengar (1993). “Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjala : Patañjala Yoga Pradīpikā”, Thorsons Pub

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• Women, I learned, adapted.
  At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.

  Alice Steinbach

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Pain, Keys

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• Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Mistake, Ideas, Balance

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• Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go through life in a groveling mode, mistakenly believing they have to receive forgiveness from others. Forgiveness offers more than a reprieve granted to us by another person. True forgiveness is a process of giving up the false for the true and allows us to rid our thinking of rigid ideas. We can develop the flexibility to change our mind and our behavior patterns to higher and greater expressions and find new avenues to freedom.

  John Templeton

  Giving Up, Confused, Believe

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• We are building a special capability at Schering-Plough to respond to these and other challenges with innovation, speed and flexibility. We aspire to continue being the company delivering the most positive change of any in our peer group, as we work to deliver our Turnaround and advance our six- to eight-year Action Agenda for transformational change.

  Fred Hassan

  Eight, Years, Challenges

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• The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it restricts the possibilities for young players.

  Sergei Shipov

  Player, Battle, Doe

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• Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

  Retief Goosen

  Golf, Guy, Conditioning

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• Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.

  Vannevar Bush

  Memories, Communication, Book

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

  Deborah

  Mind, Alternatives, Welcome

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• Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances

  Bob Benson

  Healing, Heart, Technique

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• There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat.

  John Daly

  Coke, Drink, Diets

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• This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.

  Bruno Barbey

  Years, Digital, Technique

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• Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

  Jacques Barzun

  Character, Expression, Robots

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• The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.

  Li Keqiang

  Chinese, Economy, Huge

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• If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Buddhism, Elements, Study

  "The Buddha and His Dhamma". Book by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 1957.

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