Best 116 quotes in «flexibility quotes» category

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.

THE JOY OF MISSING OUT: ⁣JOMO is a lean life that allows you to move flexibly and intentionally through your universe to experience greater joy at speed.

The modern work world requires tremendous flexibility. Anticipate working in different positions and different organizations. Expect startups, disruptive innovation, reorganizations and moving on to new adventures. Grow and change.

The measure of a person’s strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.

The most useful virtues, for one who walked on, were flexibility and a willingness to improvise.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what's in front of you, and willing to move if what you're doing isn't working.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

To say that one must live in uncertainty doesn’t begin to get at a tenuous, precarious nature of faith. The minute you begin to speak with certitude about God, he is gone. We praise people for having strong faith, but strength is only one part of that physical metaphor: one also needs FLEXIBILITY.

The two board games that best approximate the strategies of war are chess and the Asian game of go. In chess, the board is small. In comparison to go, the attack comes relatively quickly, forcing a decisive battle.... Go is much less formal. It is played on a large grid, with 361 intersections — nearly six times as many positions as in chess.... [A game of go] can last up to three hundred moves. The strategy is more subtle and fluid than chess, developing slowly; the more complex the pattern your stones initially create on the board, the harder it is for your opponent to understand your strategy. Fighting to control a particular area is not worth the trouble: You have to think in larger terms, to be prepared to sacrifice an area in order eventually to dominate the board. What you are after is not an entrenched position but mobility. With mobility you can isolate your opponent in small areas and then encircle them... Chess is linear, position oriented, and aggressive; go is nonlinear and fluid. Aggression is indirect until the end of the game, when the winner can surround the opponents' stones at an accelerated pace.

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

The truth is always fixed within certain confined bounds, were untruths have the flexibility to change.

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

When you give without needing anything in return, it provides you infinite flexibility and power.

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

What then are the benefits of being mentally flexible? Imagine a storm brewing. Intense winds are blowing hard. Stiff trees are breaking under the pressure while softer more flexible trees are bending and will rise again when the strong winds subside. Now turn this image onto human beings. People who are narrow minded, opinionated, stubborn and bullheaded are more likely to crack under pressure than people who take up a more flexible attitude towards life. It is the difference between bending and breaking under pressure.

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

When we arrived at my home north of the city, my five-year-old son Magnus, brimming with the confidence he'd gained in two full weeks of kindergarten, opened the front door and asked John, "Is it true you live in a tent?" "Yes, it is," John said. "Why don't you have a house like everybody else?" John leaned in to meet Magnus' dubious stare. "Because I endeavor to remain flexible.

we are entering an age where speed, flexibility, innovation and execution matter much more than decades-old qualifications or antiquated experiences dressing up a lengthy resume.

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy.

Wisdom requires a flexible mind.

Yielding flexibility is a virtue of an ever-expanding heart.

Flexibility is the key to stability.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important factor, not the strength of the legs.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Willow trees up high bend amid ancient knowledge shared softly by antique winds. Through attained wisdom they mature, strong and certain, enchanting the bygone winds

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

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

I think the thing with Medicare - and a lot of this - I should say, with Medicaid - and this is going to depend - states are going to be in a position to have a lot of flexibility.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

I'm varying my workouts so it's not just cardio but also includes moves to maintain my flexibility.

Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.

True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.

The least flexible component of any system is the user.

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.

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

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

The main problem with rail is flexibility and affordability.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?