Flexibility Quotes - Page 7

• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

  Laozi

  Strong, Power, Water

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• Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strength, Being Strong, Athlete

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.301

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• In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

  Robert Mondavi

  Country, Rigidity, Dictatorship

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• The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.

  George Coyne

  Christian, Discovery, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

  Max Euwe

  Titles, Machines, Chess

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• The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Self, Grace, Ego

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.120, Penguin

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• Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. And I'm certainly not going to say to him, I'll give you more flexibility after the election. After the election, he'll get more backbone.

  Mitt Romney

  Eye, Russia, Glasses

  "Еhe third debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney". www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

  Zhuangzi

  Wall, Cities, Rams

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• U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

  Richard Armitage

  Government, Middle East, Importance

  "Documents: U.S. condoned Iraq oil smuggling". edition.cnn.com. February 3, 2005.

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• We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take it from us. As they (Europeans) see Iran's determination, they will be forced to show flexibility and accept it.

  Gholam Reza Aghazadeh

  Determination, Reality, Iran

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• The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Giving, Competition

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• The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Simple, Practice

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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• Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Giving, Identity, Essentials

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• The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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• Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom. Their failures entail fewer consequences for others. But something of the gay's relationship's necessary honesty, its flexibility, and its equality could undoubtedly help strengthen and inform many heterosexual bonds.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Honesty, Couple, Children

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• Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

  Joan Blades

  Family, Mom, Jobs

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• The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, play hardly any role in grading. Were it the case, Russian would certainly be placed on the winner’s stand. It would rank first in plasticity.

  Kató Lomb

  Play, Firsts, Roles

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• A woman's flexibility and a man's strength . . . put them together and you'll have a body like mine.

  Gackt

  Men, Together, Body

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• Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for collective learning; and, the potential for synergy. Yet studies show that their actual performance often is subpar relative to "nominal" groups (i.e. individuals given the same task but their results are pooled.) The two most common reasons: groups are assigned work that is better done by individuals or are structured in ways that cap their full potential.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Opportunity, Often Is, Two

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• Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

  Laozi

  Strength, Army, Winning

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Good Life, Sadness, Psychology

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• 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.

  Brian Behlendorf

  Giving, Great Things

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• LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Growth, Lexicographer, Doe

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

  Ayana Mathis

  Character, Voice, Creating

  "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

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

  Milton Friedman

  Europe, Euro, Ifs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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