Quotes About Strategic Agility

#1. 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

#2. If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.

Eileen Myles

#3. The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.

James Marcus Bach

#4. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

Mark Lawrenson

#6. Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

Margaret Ayer Barnes

#7. Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility.

Pearl Zhu

#8. Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#9. Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Rumi

#10. What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth.
There was no cure for what one had seen or done.

Hannah Blatchford

#11. I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

George Carlin

#12. A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

James Madison

#13. I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

Busy Philipps

#14. Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

John Conyers