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flexible

«If you're a hard-working, flexible, task-oriented computer type with overseas experience, go to the front of the line.»
«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.»
«Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family»
«Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.»
«In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.»
«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»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney (Statesman) | Keywords: flexible
«If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.»
«It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.»
Author: Eugene Ormandy | Keywords: flexible
«A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.»
«As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors»