Flexibility Quotes - Page 5

• Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

  Jim Rohn

  Needs, Timing, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 18, 2017

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• During my three years as chief economist of the World Bank, labor market issues were looked at through the lens of neoclassical economics. A standard message was to increase labor market flexibility. The not-so-subtle subtext was to lower wages and lay off unneeded workers.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  World, Economist, Labor

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• Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Long, Vision

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• You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary motivation.

  Alec Soth

  Motivation, Giving, Photograph

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.

  Susan Jacoby

  Brain, Belief, Natural

  Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.132, Macmillan

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• If you change the environment, you change the people.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  People, Environment, Ifs

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• An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.

  Deepak Chopra

  Secret, Aging, Consciousness

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

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Important, Legs, Factors

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• A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.

  Warren Farrell

  Technology, Men, Mba

  "Are Women Earning More Than Men?". www.forbes.com. May 12, 2006.

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• If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

  John Carmack

  Programming, Approach, Something Better

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• The least flexible component of any system is the user.

  Lowell Jay Arthur

  Flexible, Components, Users

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• President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Loyalty, Commitment, Walking Away

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

  Ryan Holiday

  Ambition, Humility, Resilience

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.123, Profile Books

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• You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

  Ted Cruz

  Principles, Good Things, Flexible

  The CBS News Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. February 13, 2016.

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• Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Loss, Freedom And Happiness

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• Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.

  Yvon Chouinard

  School, People, Way

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.199, Penguin

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• Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Humanity, Intuition

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• The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

  Michael Arndt

  Emotional, Self Improvement, Fluidity

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• Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.

  Bruce Tulgan

  Dream, Jobs, War

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• We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck

  Philippa Perry

  Filters, Needs, Looks

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• I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

  Michael Chang

  Doctors, Littles, Months

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• Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, School

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• Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Character, Ugly

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• We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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