Top 100 Quotes About Agility
#1. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
Pearl Zhu
#2. The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.
Pearl Zhu
#3. It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.
David Pearce
#4. 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
Benjamin Millepied
#5. If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
Novalis
#6. Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.
Barry Boehm
#7. We are organized by territories, whereas terrorists are organized into networks. States are very slow and terrorists are extremely fast. Intelligence sharing needs to expand beyond the regional and become global and not country-focused. We need to acquire speed and agility.
Ashraf Ghani
#8. Agility is principally about mindset, not practices.
Jim Highsmith
#9. He had perhaps seen fifty springs and was therefore already very old, but his tireless body moved with an agility I myself often lacked.
Umberto Eco
#10. I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
Merlin Olsen
#11. Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.
Bill Gates
#12. Becoming limitless involves mental agility; the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence.
Lorii Myers
#13. Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability
Jim Highsmith
#14. I'm happy to feed the squirrels - tree rats with the agility of point guards - but in fair weather, they frighten my finches. They leap from snowbank to porch to feeder and stuff their cheek pouches with chickadee feed.
Donald Hall
#15. lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that!
Margaret Lobenstine
#16. The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.
Greg Gutfeld
#17. Digital IT is all about speed, agility, and flexibility.
Pearl Zhu
#18. Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.
Robert Kiyosaki
#19. To survive in the race of life, you must have the strength and agility to stand the test of time".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#20. His agility surprised Phoebe Ash. She saw the plaster cast on his right leg. Funny messages in ink - "Go break the left one, tiger!" - had been written on the off-white plaster.
Ed Lynskey
#21. A responsive IT means a lot of things for the digital transformation: Speed, innovation, agility, integration, modernization, intelligence, value creation, and maturity, etc
Pearl Zhu
#22. A programmable mind embraces mental agility, to practice "de-learning" and "relearning" all the time.
Pearl Zhu
#23. I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.
Hope Solo
#24. Agility should not be translated to sacrificing planning, management guidelines, and quality assurance.
Pearl Zhu
#25. The old agility was still present and the passion was undeniable, but it was the wobbling of the gut, the puffing of the cheeks and the profuse sweating that lent the performance its true magic.
Jamie Holoran
#26. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.
Pearl Zhu
#27. The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc.
Pearl Zhu
#28. Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
Henry Chadwick
#29. The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.
Bruce Lee
#30. Agility within and of itself is a strategy.
Pearl Zhu
#31. Big Cyndi crossed the room with an agility that belied the bulk. She wrapped me in an embrace that made me feel as if I'd been mummified in wet attic insulation. In a good way.
Harlan Coben
#32. The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.
Meredith Marple
#34. Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.
Steve Ballmer
#35. Are you my enemy? Are you strong, with speed and agility and the training of a warrior? It matters naught to me. Run now! Run fast into the forest! I'll give you a few moments' start - an hour, if you wish. But you will never be fast enough. I'll catch and kill you before long.
Joseph Delaney
#36. I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
#37. Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility.
Pearl Zhu
#38. Tennis lessons westlake village provide a good coaching for youngest.Because that are very experiance men in tennis.His students on the importance of strength and agility training as well as mental and psychological strength and the roles they play within the game of tennis.
Various
#39. Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change ... agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.
Jim Highsmith
#41. To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!
Jimmy Doolittle
#42. As for agility, a biologist at the National Bison Range in Montana once observed a 2,000-pound bull leap up a six-foot embankment from a standing start!13
Michael Punke
#43. You've good speed and agility, and endurance enough. But you've no killer in the blood, and so you'll always be bested." Iona rubbed her butt. "I never planned on killing anyone." "Plans change," Branna pointed out. "Fix those flowers now, as it's your rump that crushed them.
Nora Roberts
#44. Did we do our best to meet our priorities for that day, based on the given circumstances and unexpected life events? Today agility and fluidity are truly the key elements required - along with patience, compassion, forgiveness, and gentle discipline. Maryrose Solis, founder, March 4ward
Anonymous
#45. My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation
Steve Nash
#46. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.
Time-Life Books
#47. Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
Peter Drucker
#48. Reducing coordination and transaction costs is at the heart of Lean. It is waste elimination in its most potent form. It allows smaller batches to become efficient. It enables business agility. Reducing coordination and transaction costs is game changing.
David J. Anderson
#49. Learning agility is the willingness and ability to learn, de-learn, and relearn. Limitations on learning are barriers invented by humans.
Pearl Zhu
#50. The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
Tony Judt
#51. An individual's agility is a fundamental digital capability block through which she or he can build more advanced professional capabilities and better fit in the digital dynamic we live in.
Pearl Zhu
#52. I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.
Eminem
#53. When Elizabeth was old and had a wrinkled face and black teeth, she was one day discovered practicing the dance step alone, to the sound of a fiddle, determined to keep up to the last the limberness and agility necessary to impress foreign ambassadors with her grace and youth.
William Shakespeare
#54. Lleyton Hewitt ... his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness.
Pat Cash
#55. Of all animals, the outward form of the Lion is the most striking ; his look is bold and confident; his gait proud; and his voice terrible ; and from his great strength and agility, is usually styled the king of beasts.
William Pinnock
#56. As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
Michael Chang
#57. Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?
John D. MacDonald
#59. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.
Pearl Zhu
#60. God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.
Dillon Burroughs
#61. No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.
Dallas Willard
#62. All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough
Ruskin Bond
#63. Learning agility means to learn, de-learn, and relearn all the times.
Pearl Zhu
#64. I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.
Ray Stata
#65. Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.
Anita Roddick
#66. Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.
Pearl Zhu
#67. It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
Elizabeth Lesser
#68. Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.
Buck Rodgers
#69. IT agility is a mentality, culture, process, and perspective.
Pearl Zhu
#70. He didn't have the loose-limbed cockiness of a man her age, springing to attention with the desire to impress everyone with his agility and form. No, the stranger moved with a languorous arrogance of a man more settled into his skin. A sort of graceful conceit that suggested entitlement.
Vivienne Lorret
#71. Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.
Chuck Hagel
#72. The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth ...
Adrian Slywotzky
#73. Age was a demon, a haunting that slipped into the bones whispering weakness and frailty. It stole his muscles, his agility, and the quickness of his wit. It seemed a miserable reward for surviving, all things told, which was proof enough that life was a fool's bargain.
Steven Erikson
#74. It's not just straight-line speed. He's got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I'm really looking forward to it.
LeBron James
#75. I don't feel that no fighter has the mental or physical agility to match Floyd Mayweather.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#76. Decision-making is a solid business capability to improve business responsiveness, agility, and competency.
Pearl Zhu
#77. A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
Agnes Repplier
#78. The priority has to be set for lifting IT and overall business maturity from efficiency to effectiveness to agility.
Pearl Zhu
#79. Creative leadership can be described as "adaptability meets agility," and "innovation meets principles.
Pearl Zhu
#80. The ultimate test of agility is whether you can keep all your stakeholders happy.
Jurgen Appelo
#81. Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words ... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.
Octavio Paz
#82. The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered.
Donald Barthelme
#83. Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.
Steven Pinker
#84. Mybike handling qualities include on-a-rail tracking, almost as if the headset were too tight, and a high-strung, joyous agility. Frame geometry and construction integrity combine with the rider's caffeine consumption level to produce serendipitously disparate handling characteristics.
Maynard Hershon
#85. I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don't like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.
Tyson Fury
#86. If the work of the average man required half the mental agility and readiness of resource of the work of the average prostitute, the average man would be constantly on the verge of starvation.
H.L. Mencken
#87. Agile is not prescriptive and which techniques are appropriate will depend on the context.
Pearl Zhu
#88. Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#89. Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.
Pearl Zhu
#90. Don't rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#91. Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.
Paul Gibbons
#92. Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.
Toba Beta
#94. Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#95. Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.
Pearl Zhu
#96. Doing Agile is just a first step; being agile needs to have a totally different mindset, and multidimensional perspectives.
Pearl Zhu
#97. Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.
Paul Gibbons
#98. A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.
Amit Ray
#99. The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.
Pearl Zhu
#100. Agile is more a "direction," than an "end," a philosophy and mindset at board level.
Pearl Zhu
