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Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

Zubin Mehta

Advice, Umbrella, Ready

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Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

Eric Maisel

Alternatives, Circumstances, Turns

Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.

Jeremy Campbell

Strong, Brain, Information

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However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

Robert Huber

Years, Community, Accepted

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In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.

Daniel Goleman

Strong, Jobs, Team

Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.29, Bantam

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It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

Margaret Haddix

Fun, Character, Stories

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Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

Bernard Law Montgomery

Air, Pieces, Splits

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When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

Margaret Haddix

Writing, Wells, Bad Things

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Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

Daniel Levitin

Music, Communication, Speech

Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.260, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Running water never grows stale.

Bruce Lee

Running, Water, Stale

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing

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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Abba Eban

Ears, Movement, Elegance

Abba Solomon Eban (1999). “Diplomacy for the Next Century”, p.88, Yale University Press

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When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

Husayn ibn Ali

Frustrated, Way, Moderation

"Bihārul Anwār" by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, vol.78, p. 128,

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I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Emma Bonino

Feminine, Characteristics

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To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

Mason Cooley

Needs, Prophecy, Fulfilled

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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Edward de Bono

Cost, Strive, Be Prepared

Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

James F. Amos

Jobs, Marine, Adaptability

"Reshaping Your Corps". Interview with Bob Drury, www.menshealth.com. June 2, 2011.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friends, Eye, Fate

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.566, Jazzybee Verlag

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Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

Joshua L. Goldberg

Needs, Students, Painting

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

Boz Scaggs

Quartets

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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Laozi

Water, Taoism, Enlightening

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The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

Peter Lynch

Pain, Mistake, Humility

Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Fleur Adcock

Communication, Poetry, Way

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A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.

Bruce Lee

Strong, Powerful, Athlete

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For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

Fred Astaire

Dancing, Individuality, Style

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