Quotes of Flexibility - somelinesforyou

“ Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing Search Inside the Book technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books. ”

- Jeff Bezos

“ The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Flexibility? That's all hooey,... The intent is to dump costs on the states... We'll end up without enough federal oversight , and that's a major problem, but nobody's talking about that. ”

- John Dingell

“ It's not likely you're going to be able to match the flexibility of the PC. But the opportunity to firewall it off a little bit, to keep it from being the core device, certainly appeals to a lot of developers. ”

- Stephen Baker

“ 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 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

“ As our service has expanded to more airlines and destinations worldwide, passengers have enjoyed the benefits of airborne Internet access. Yet, through our customer research, passengers also have told us they want simplified pricing based on the time they are connected and more options for how to pay for it… ”

- David Friedman

“ And I said, 'The one thing you've got to avoid is getting trapped like (former President Richard) Nixon into a rigid posture of denial because that gives you no flexibility, no room to maneuver and you get stuck,... And presidents only get killed when they get stuck… ”

- Dick Morris

“ I believe that in Stagecoach we have identified the ideal partner who can provide the financial flexibility and resources to support our next growth phase. ”

- Larry King

“ I felt at some times Kobe might have taken advantage of our flexibility. ”

- Phil Jackson

“ One can carry on engaging with , and there is a little bit of flexibility being shown,... But the signals that have come out are certainly not very encouraging. ”

- Pervez Musharraf

“ There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ It allows a lot more flexibility on our operations,... It will also help decrease the amount of overtime spent. ”

- Tom Taylor

“ There's so much more that goes into it. There's strength, flexibility and explosiveness, and we focused more on that stuff. If you have technique, the rest will come. ”

- John Ford

“ The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn. - Anon. ”

- Unknown

“ We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child. ”

- Joseph Smith Jr.

“ If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. ”

- Chief Joseph

“ Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. ”

- Cormac McCarthy

“ We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ The most amazing thing about little children … was their fantastic adaptability. ”

- Kristin Hunter

“ Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ We're going to have a... no-tolerance approach toward violations. ”

- Robert White

“ We feel that he will be able to play three positions for us, giving us added versatility. ”

- Pat Riley

“ We're going to create a distinct organization through legislation. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you. ”

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

“ The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ We welcome the progress towards flexibility that has been made in China. ”

- Gordon Brown
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