Quotes About Flexibility

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.

Instead of traveling on a weekend, begin your trip on a Tuesday or Wednesday, which are often the cheapest days to fly. Being flexible with timing can help with savings.

I've been known to turn up drunk at triathlons and do very well. I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned.

Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.

The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a chauffeur or a chaperone, especially for my 12-year-old and whatever her plans are.

People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

Critics' points of view can be one thing today and be very different in a few years.

My whole thing was I wanted to stay poised in different situations and scenarios.

I want to get to the 'pick your poison' type of situations like James Harden.

One of my ongoing messages is the importance of families not being polarized. It's important to talk about routines and bring everything into the middle and not to one extreme or another.

Pole dancing is a great way to enhance your fitness level and also your dancing abilities.

You can't say there is only one way of doing things, the police way of ensuring law and order.

When the acting all dries up, I won't be going there - either to the police force or to the church. I'll have to think of something else!

Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.

To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.

I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all political persuasions. My ideal political party would be a pick and mix.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.