Flexibility Quotes - Page 16

• These qualities - things like deep listening, collaboration, flexibility, tapping into our emotions - seem to me to be the kinds of qualities that are intrinsic to women. I think that's the thing I'm most excited about: continuing to promote women in the workplace.

  Maureen Chiquet

  Thinking, Listening, Quality

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Things change. There has to be flexibility. Let me give you an example. President Xi, we have a, like, a really great relationship. For me to call him a currency manipulator and then say, “By the way, I'd like you to solve the North Korean problem,” doesn't work. So you have to have a certain flexibility, Number One. Number Two, from the time I took office till now, you know, it's a very exact thing. It's not like generalities.

  Donald Trump

  Giving, Office, President

  "The 100 Days: Who Can Stop an Unfit President*?" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2017.

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• We need to remake and reinvent our housing system so that it supports the flexibility and mobility of our economic system broadly. Home-ownership is rewarded by the federal tax code, which made great sense when that piece of the American Dream, and all the consumption that came with it, was essential to rebuilding the economy. These days, however, it feels like a huge penalty to people who want to travel light within the new mobile economy without a mortgage to hold them back.

  Richard Florida

  Dream, People, Support

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• IBM customers of any size can now rest assured that Double-Take, the most innovative, flexible and reliable data protection solution on the market, is proven to integrate easily into their IBM infrastructure.

  Dan Jones

  Data, Size, Protection

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• Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station.

  Wayne Hale

  Moving, Space, Flying

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• There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices are more important now than ever to balance the boat.

  Brenda Strong

  Spiritual, Practice, Balance

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• We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

  Brenda Strong

  Mind, Beginners, Fundamentals

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

  Maynard Webb

  Cost, Want, Modern

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

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• When we are in the process of creating something, we must have flexibility of mind to move with what needs to be done. What allows this to happen is precisely the fact that we're not attached to how things should be done.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Moving, Creating, Mind

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.124, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I was never a cheerleader, but one of my very close friends was, and she is the one that taught me to do my first cartwheel. I always thought they were so talented and focused, and now that I've had the honor to walk in their shoes for a moment, my respect for their flexibility, skill, and resilience has increased tremendously.

  Heather Hemmens

  Skills, Shoes, Honor

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

  Phil Collins

  Kids, Wish, Consideration

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

  Michelle Obama

  Workout, Moving, Cardio

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.

  Wesley Clark

  Air, Patterns, Way

  "NATO: Aerial photo may show mass graves in Kosovo". www.cnn.com. April 11, 1999.

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• We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Giving, Beats, Process

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• The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance.

  Claude Mandil

  Country, Exercise, Needs

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• Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fresh air. But these ideas shouldn't only be for people who can afford to go to a museum or a symposium in the "better part of town."

  Mark Bradford

  People, Giving, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Levels, May, Safe

  "Hit Where It Hurts" by Theodore Kaczynski, "Why The System Is Tough", point 4, 2002.

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• I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Yoga, Thinking, Mind

  "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• External scouting is of limited value if it's not teamed with rigorous self- examination. Successful coaches or managers have learned the value of utilizing an outside opinion to give them a fresh look at their personnel. This unbiased view provides an even greater insight, which in turn helps the coach develop flexibility within the team.

  Don Yaeger

  Team, Successful, Giving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The most important thing about an astronaut is you have to take for a given a person's done pretty well in school, has the intelligence and all of that to learn new systems and new things. But after that, the most important thing I think is being able to get along with others. Flexibility and teamwork, those issues because as we fly longer and longer in space, those are really important factors, even on short shuttle missions, those are important factors, to put a crew together that can work together effectively as a team, that can get along.

  Leroy Chiao

  Teamwork, School, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one could say about Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of a Shia state because that in itself is a blasphemy as far as most Shia clerics are concerned. There's a theory that he developed in the early 1960s in the town of Najaf talking about - well not liberalism, necessarily, but flexibility though.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Islamic, Conservative, 1960s

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Today, people no longer go out with a total look or ensemble taken straight from the runway. Customers mix and match between labels and between price points. The idea is to create something for yourself: what you want, and how you want it. I realize that shoppers want more flexibility and choice now.

  Giorgio Armani

  Taken, People, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The successful human being is adaptable. We have to adapt to changes in weather. We have to adapt to changes in climate. We have to adapt to changing economic circumstances. People that don't have the flexibility to adapt or who are afraid of change or who oppose it are going to be left behind.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Successful, People, Economic

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they use doesn't have any flexibility anymore.

  Bronson Pinchot

  People, World, Language

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Today, entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a new era in which organizations put talent at the heart of their business models. And they have no choice. Having grown up surrounded by entrepreneurial freedoms, workers expect flexibility. They insist on collaboration. They demand meaning. Creating an environment that brings out the entrepreneurial instincts in your workforce - a worldview we might call "employeeship"- is key.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Heart, Choices, Entrepreneur

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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