Quotes About Agility

I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

I see the takedowns; I see the opportunities to take people down or even try to submit them or something like that. But man, I prefer to stay on my feet. That way I'm confident.

Being a fast mover and being decisive—it is very hard to be successful and not have those traits as a founder. Why that is, I'm not perfectly clear on, but I think it is something . . . about the only advantage that start-ups have or the biggest advantage that start-ups have over large companies is agility, speed, willing to make non-consensus, concentrated bets, incredible focus. That's really how you get to beat a big company.

Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Make mistakes faster.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

Most companies are built to execute today's business model, not discover tomorrow's.

I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

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Code is FLUFFY AND FIERCE.

Thus, a key flaw with the top-down, central planning approach is how limited it is in allowing us to be limber and able to discover new ways of doing things.

Michael was more likely to break through his attackers with his power and strength.