Quotes About Flexibility At Work

#1. The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

Philippa Perry

#2. We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.

Keith L. Moore

#3. The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

Stephen Covey

#4. Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

Andy Hargreaves

#5. Be flexible and adapt easily to new things

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people ... If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.

Richard Branson

#7. There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

Peter Singer

#8. The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

Robin G. Collingwood

#9. There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.

Simon Hoggart

#10. To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#11. I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

Thomas Perez

#12. I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

Hillary Clinton

#13. There is an endless kingdom to be enjoyed, and everlasting life to be given us, that we may live in that kingdom forever.

John Bunyan

#14. What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

Simon Hoggart

#15. I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Stella McCartney

#16. Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow and offer relatively short-term feedback. This leads to internal comparisons to the improvisational nature of parenting

Jennifer Senior

#17. We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#18. Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

Joan Blades

#19. Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

Lili Taylor

#20. I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

Todd Barry

#21. It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

Ray Rice

#22. There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

Jennifer Hale

#23. People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness.

Miru Kim

#24. All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

Joline Godfrey

#25. You can't work all your life.

Marion Cotillard

#26. The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

Deborah Tannen

#27. In our factories, we create flexibility by paying more to workers who can work at more stations on a production line. We value flexibility, and we pay for it. In contrast, most product development organizations exclusively reward specialization.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#28. I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.

Anne Wojcicki

#29. You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

Chalene Johnson

#30. He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

Jeffrey Toobin