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While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

Jimmy Buffett

Education, Mind, Bones

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Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.

Kathryn Minshew

Team, Decision, Different

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Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come 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

Art, Disappointment, Philosophy

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

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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

Willem Dafoe

Actors, Ready, Best Things

"Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

Vince Cable

Ideas, Easy, Selling

"Vince Cable hits out at 'backward' Tory rightwingers" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

Eric Bana

Disappointment, Years, Giving

Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.

Julian Barnes

Selfish, Good Love, Writing

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... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

Neal Shusterman

Girl, Goal, Weakness

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I'm weirdly flexible, so when I dance, I dance like a 17-year-old girl.

Michael Angarano

Girl, Years

"Exclusive Q&A: 'Ceremony' Star Michael Angarano insists tights are masculine" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. April 07, 2011.

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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Escorting, Chiefs, Politeness

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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

Ken Robinson

Communication, Organization, Littles

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Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Thinking, Next Steps, Should

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But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.

Daniel Yergin

Ties, Important, Energy

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Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

John Phillips

Technology, Perfect, Cost

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You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

Hans Zimmer

Critics, All Time

Twitter post from Jul 23, 2012

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The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

Bill Crawford

Children, Creative, Brain

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Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

Seth Godin

Confusion, Choices, Faces

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.33, Penguin

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Here is a fact: someday you will die. What will you do with this incredible gift that is your life? Do you want to get to the end of the road and wish you had strived more, accomplished more, and loved more? To do these things you will have to take chances, demonstrate courage, and commit in a way that allows you to be flexible but never allows you to quit on yourself.

Richard Machowicz

Wish, Want, Way

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If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

J. Richard Hackman

Thinking, Yield, Feet

"Executive Life; Learning Teamwork By Making Music" by Amy Zipkin, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2003.

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Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

Amit Ray

Mirrors, Mind, World

Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.97, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

Pema Chodron

Wisdom, Buddhist, Humor

Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.

Mooji

Intention, Tension

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Justice is not a flexible tool. Unless we all do our part to ensure that justice is applied equally to all human beings, we are a party to its abuse. We must stand together to protect the rights of others.

Leonard Peltier

Party, Rights, Justice

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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Carl Sagan

Book, Dark, Years

"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.

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If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.

Pema Chodron

Moments, Asks, Ifs

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