Quotes with flexible

  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clear
  • But if this makes the financial system more flexible and helps it overcome localized crises, it also raises the ante, escalating the risk of massive collapse.

Quotes 1 till 20 of 22.

1 2 Next 
  • Bert Lance Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
    - +
    +1
  • Tony Robbins Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alvin Toffler But if this makes the financial system more flexible and helps it overcome localized crises, it also raises the ante, escalating the risk of massive collapse.
    Power Shift (1990)
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
    - +
     0
  • Anthony Robbins If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Lewis Mumford In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
    - +
     0
  • Sydney Smith It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
    - +
     0
  • Lao-Tzu 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.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Zobrist Out in the field, I feel like I'm flexible enough to where I'm comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Lady Blessington The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
    - +
     0
  • Lady Blessington The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
    - +
     0
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
    - +
     0
  • Gloria Steinem There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
    - +
     0
  • Joseph De Maistre We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
    - +
     0
  • Beth Brooke What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
    - +
     0
  • Beth Brooke What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
    - +
     0
  • Margaret Drabble Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?
    The Middle Ground (2013) 65
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Harper Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
    - +
     0
1 2 Next 
All flexible famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com