Top 86 Quotes About Nimble

#1. Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

Anna Maria Chavez

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#2. A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

John Winthrop

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#3. I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

Will Rogers

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#4. A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

D.H. Lawrence

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#5. Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

William Shakespeare

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#6. I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren't created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way.

Ed Helms

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#7. With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.

Ron Chernow

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#8. Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

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#9. Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

William Shakespeare

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#10. In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

Eleanor Farjeon

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#11. One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad' takes you on a fast-paced trip down a tunnel filled with lights and a shifting list of rules to keep your neurons nimble.

Rob Manuel

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#12. Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Eric Ries

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#13. Two children, all alone and no one by,
Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze
Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet
Dance sedately; face to face they gaze,
Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.

Laurence Binyon

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#14. A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you.

Sharon Creech

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#15. How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

Mira Grant

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#16. Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

Natalie Massenet

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#17. I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

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#18. A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables

Beth Hoffman

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#19. To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

Fanny Burney

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#20. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

Don McLean

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#21. I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

Lindsey Buckingham

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#22. I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

Nelson Mandela

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#23. A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Nelson Mandela

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#24. [Thoreau] is a nimble skater who cuts elegant and complicated figures on a surface of frozen platitudes. Perhaps he would have been a better writer if he had not been quite so good a man.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#25. To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

William Shakespeare

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#26. We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

Ben Huh

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#27. This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies,
And Lads and Girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
And frocks and curls.
This passive place a Summer's nimble mansion,
Where Bloom and Bees
Fulfilled their Oriental Circuit,
Then ceased like these.

Emily Dickinson

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#28. Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

Peter Diamandis

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#29. Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

Joel Miller

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#30. Mighty brawn is no match for a nimble brain. Let

Devdutt Pattanaik

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#31. The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.

Warren G

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#32. This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

John Wesley

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#33. It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest.

Robert Lacey

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#34. An association that chooses to emerge healthier it needs to be willing to shift the energy of the board and volunteers to be positive and fun, shift down to a more manageable and nimble-size board, and via the law of attraction know the right board members will lead the association forward.

Holly Duckworth

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#35. I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

Anna Olson

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#36. Mother Goose chuckled to herself. "Jack is nimble, Jack is quick - but Jack can be such a - " She stopped herself from finishing the thought, perhaps remembering she was talking to thirteen-year-olds. "I think I've had enough bubbly for one night. It's time for bed anyway.

Chris Colfer

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#37. Key to women's ascent was the typewriter. Invented in 1867 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the original model was decorated with floral decals and mounted on a treadle table, like a sewing machine; promoters proclaimed it perfect for a woman's "nimble fingers.

Kate Bolick

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#38. Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Tom Robbins

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#39. Kids are more nimble than wise ...

Nancy Gibbs

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#40. Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

Meridith Valiando Rojas

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#41. So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

John Entwistle

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#42. If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

Rob Walton

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#43. I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.
Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#44. A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

Winston Churchill

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#45. You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

William Shakespeare

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#46. The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.

Ryan Holmes

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#47. We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

Clive Thompson

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#48. The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection ...

Heinrich Heine

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#49. His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

John Milton

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#50. It's a great time for independent media because technology reduces the entry barrier. It makes it a phenomenal time for media in general. It's David versus Goliath, and David is always a little smarter, more nimble, more fast.

Sasa Vucinic

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#51. Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds

Genghis Khan

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#52. A lot of us start out nimble. You need to stay that way. You want to have that in your culture. Check to see why things are going wrong and fix them. Understand what's going on in your business so you know if there's a drop somewhere.

JJ Ramberg

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#53. A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.

Walt Whitman

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#54. There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

David Oyelowo

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#55. The nimble lie
Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
Till it has reached the goal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#56. For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

Ed Begley Jr.

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#57. You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

Jeremy Stoppelman

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#58. The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

Alexis Ohanian

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#59. Consider the millions who are buying those modern Aladdin's lamps called e-readers. These magical devices, ever more beautiful and nimble in design, have only to be lightly rubbed for the genie of literature to be summoned.

Steve Wasserman

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#60. There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

George Santayana

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#61. The nimble of mind long for the challenge of new discoveries. Weary minds cling to what is already known.

K. Lee Lerner

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#62. I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#63. It is sweet to dance to violins
When love and life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!

Oscar Wilde

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#64. The future of digital organizations is to be complex enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to adapt to the change promptly.

Pearl Zhu

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#65. A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble)

Jonathan Auxier

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#66. When you dance with a storm, Danny, you have to be nimble and strong and full of your own lightning.

Amy Parker

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#67. A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

William Shakespeare

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#68. For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

Cate Blanchett

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#69. Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

Thomas Otway

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#70. We guard the edge of the world," Dawnstripe told him. "The other Clans sit cozy in their marshes and woods, fed by the river and sheltered by our moor. They never know the true taste of the wind or the scent of first snow. There's no Clan cat faster or more nimble than a WindClan cat.

Erin Hunter

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#71. Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

John Collison

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#72. We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Emily Dickinson

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#73. Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

William Shakespeare

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#74. And who died and made you boss?" But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my hair back with nimble fingers.
Niko slapped a shoulder holster against my chest. "No one. Like all truly great dictators, I seized that power myself. Now finish up. We leave in five minutes.

Rob Thurman

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#75. When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

Sakyong Mipham

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#76. His name was George F. Babbitt, and ... he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Sinclair Lewis

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#77. I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.

Marisha Pessl

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#78. It is not the stongest person who wins in life, but it is the most nimble, flexible, and adaptive person who wins in life.

Debasish Mridha

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#79. While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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#80. After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.

Charles Duhigg

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#81. There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

Marc Andreessen

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#82. Oh, Draven. You're my hero too! If not for you, that mean old boar would have eaten me alive. (Simon)
Get off me, you nimble-pated gelding. (Draven)

Kinley MacGregor

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#83. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

Chubby Checker

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#84. Great education defies structure because it is always (always!) individualized, personalized, interactive, nimble, responsive and inspired.

Oliver DeMille

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#85. We seek to be as nimble as a startup.

Beth Comstock

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#86. Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,
Driving back shadows over louring hills:
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

William Shakespeare

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