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• Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

  Reid Hoffman

  Vision, Persistent

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• Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.

  Ping Fu

  Attitude, Wind, Grace

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• Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Weight, Woods, Bent

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• The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

  Fred Brooks

  Media, Creating, Air

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

  Felix Dennis

  Opportunity, People, Challenges

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.97, Penguin

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• The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Ignorant

  "23 Warning Signs of a Toxic Friend" by Ann Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Our World, Space

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.

  Bill Drayton

  Team, Opportunity, Organization

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• Seeing the small is called Clarity.
  Keeping flexible is called Strength.
  Using the shining Radiance,
  You enter the Light,
  Where no harm can come to you.
  This is called Enlightenment.

  Laozi

  Strength, Light, Shining

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• The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Long, Libertarian, Socialism

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• Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.

  Robert Frenay

  Nature, Ecosystems, Fire

  Robert Frenay (2006). “Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Sleep, Night

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• English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

  Paul Scott

  Mean, Light, Years

  Paul Scott (2011). “The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Talking, Years, Issues

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• To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

  Chris Evert

  Selfish, Tunnels, Tennis

  "Billie Jean King and Chris Evert reminisce about tennis careers". Interview with Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.

  Michael A. Walsh

  Stars, Powerful, Destiny

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• Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

  Barbara Johnson

  Time, Brother, Niece

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• I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.

  Chad Kroeger

  Beer, Mouths, Cases

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• It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Principles, Orchestra

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• Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, Odd Things, Jam

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

  Robert David Steele

  Integrity, Challenges, Resilience

  Robert David Steele (2012). “The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust”, p.86, North Atlantic Books

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• As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.

  Stephen Lang

  Basketball, Yoga, Games

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• As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type; it's the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better.

  Victoria Moran

  Hair, Color, Mind

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• The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

  Glen Mazzara

  Keys, Communicate, Organized

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