Nimble Quotes

• Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Sea, Land

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.267

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• There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

  Marc Andreessen

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Ifs

  "Marc Andreessen: ALL Of The Biggest, Oldest Tech Companies Will Be Forced To Break Up" by Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. Octobor 16, 2014.

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• Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

  Meridith Valiando Rojas

  Mistake, Criticism, Ends

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• As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leader, Shepherds, Opinion

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• You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Inspiration, Open Minded, Dependent

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• We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

  Emily Dickinson

  Believe, Hours, Hundred

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.279, Harvard University Press

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• We seek to be as nimble as a startup.

  Beth Comstock

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• There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

  George Santayana

  Humor, Growth, Mind

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• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

  Chubby Checker

  Games, Sticks, Nursery

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• A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Nonprofits, Environment, Fluid

  "The Dynamics of Change — A New Vision for a New Girl Scouting Century" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

  Nelson Mandela

  Opinion, Discussion, Persons

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Media, Landscape, Open Minded

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• So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

  John Entwistle

  Guitar, Hands, Age

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• Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Nature, Animal

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.18

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• A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tongue, Bears

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Love's Labour's Lost (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.74, Sparklesoup LLC

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• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  College, Community, Leader

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Time, Age

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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• In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Feet, People, Stones

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Fleet Street)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

  John Milton

  Airy, Command

  'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) sect. 12, p. 55

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• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Father, Book

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1998). “Aurora Leigh”, p.103, OUP Oxford

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• To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

  Fanny Burney

  Memories, Heart, Action

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3739, Delphi Classics

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• It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Life And Love, Air

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Ballade of reading Gaol”, p.6, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

  Anna Olson

  Writing, Exercise, Mind

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• A lot of us start out nimble. You need to stay that way. You want to have that in your culture. Check to see why things are going wrong and fix them. Understand what's going on in your business so you know if there's a drop somewhere.

  JJ Ramberg

  Needs, Culture, Want

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