Quotes About Agility

You always need to be on your toes.

I watched him, trying to decide if he was lying about how badly he was hurt, and suddenly like throwing open a pair of shutters, I saw the muscles of his back moving beneath his skin, the strength of his shoulders, the long-fingered grace of his hands. I had always known that Mildmay, despite being a good half foot shorter than I, was as muscular and agile as an acrobat, but now I saw that he was beautiful.

At the heart of the debate over how to overcome the challenges of shipping good things is an idea referenced in the title of Eric Raymond's book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.1 The book, which is about observations on making software, raises a central question that is relevant to all work: Is it better to invest time in making a big masterful plan or instead to start immediately and figure it out as you go?

I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.

Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

Uno podría ser más consciente de la necesidad de conservar las cosas sencillas, ser más flexible y moverse más deprisa.

While in the past we may have wanted loyal employees, today we need flexible people who are not possessive about "the way things are done around here." And

So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never actually entrust my heart to scientists—they'd probably implant it in a baboon. And a baboon with my heart would be practically unstoppable. Baboon strength and agility combined with my determination and media savvy? It would be a threat to all of humanity.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!

Squash is boxing with racquets.

If it rushed he'd slash. Stabbing is a fool's move, the blade gets caught. Ben knew that quick slashes could fend off even a big hound or a boar.

And saw a field mouse whistling through the air in a karate attack position, claws out, hind legs foremost—right at him.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Supple design has a profound effect on the ability of software to cope with change and complexity.

We'd like to keep things flexible;

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn't mean it cannot be managed.

The ability to learn faster from customers is the essential competitive advantage that startups must possess.

I call this building an adaptive organization, one that automatically adjusts its process and performance to current conditions.