Flexible Quotes
329 quotes by 282 authors
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I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss,…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
— Christopher Lasch
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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the…
— Penelope Lively
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If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or…
— Hilary Mantel
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Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time…
— Theresa May
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I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they…
— Theresa May
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
— Viggo Mortensen
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers…
— Camille Paglia
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The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no…
— Unknown Author
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Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be…
— Jeremy Renner
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It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
— Ryan Reynolds
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Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
— Tony Robbins
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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -…
— Virginia Satir
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Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment…
— James Surowiecki
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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't…
— Tim Vine
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Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from…
— Martin Filler
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Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being…
— Bruce Lee
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