Flexible Quotes - Page 19

• I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

  Karen Russell

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Zero, Bridges, Energy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Men, Band, Machines

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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• I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Perfect, People, Finding Yourself

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

  Maynard Webb

  Creating, People, Benefits

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.

  Richard Simmons

  Running, Attitude, Exercise

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• I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

  John Marsden

  Attitude, Selfish, War

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

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• Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets.

  Stephen King

  Cards, Tables, Bullets

  Stephen King (2017). “Skeleton Crew: Stories”, p.671, Simon and Schuster

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• To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

  Petrus Borel

  Order, Ideas, Desire

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• If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

  Kim Novak

  Needs, Want, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.

  Sebastian Stan

  Size, Not Interested

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• Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Winter, Gloves, Want

  "Felix Baumgartner: 'I hope I can make fear cool" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

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• I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

  Huston Smith

  Believe, Support, Political

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• I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.

  Kate Voegele

  Kids, Guitar, Insane

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• This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Perfect, Wish

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• Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Technology, Culture, Should

  "Samsung and Hyundai issue rallying call" by Song Jung-a, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2012.

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• There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Men, Command And Control

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Running, Expression, Names

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• China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.

  Arjuna Mahendran

  Moving, Two, Might

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• I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with a guy who calls me Babe. Other than that, however, I'm real flexible.

  Linda Sunshine

  Real, Men, Dating

  Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, p.48, Crown Archetype

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• I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Eye, Facts

  Pico Iyer (2000). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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