Quotes About Agility

Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

A young panther in cufflinks and a pinstriped suit—a panther ready to pounce.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale—why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of a lobster?

Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete.

I'm more athletic than people think.

I would say I'm deceptively athletic - probably a lot more athletic than people think I am.

I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

Being on the court you can really negate your athletic ability by just being in the right position.

I think that's one of my main attributes. My movement, my speed, my feet.

If you never pass or dribble or go on the outside, cutting inside will stop working.

I'm one of those players who loves to dribble the ball, to run at people.

I'm way more comfortable off the dribble, shooting the ball of the dribble, making a play off the dribble.

Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.

Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

I do enjoy fielding.

Perhaps nothing escapes this fate but the liveliness and nimbleness of the mind—the very qualities with which the novel is written, qualities that belong to a universe other than the one we live in.

Plan specifically so you can implement flexibly.

Cats use their tails as a way of balancing; they can walk with each foot in a line, along the top of a fence or on narrow paths.

Cats' whiskers are not only to make them look pretty, they are their radar system. Because the whiskers are sensitive, they notify the cat if a gap is too narrow. If the whiskers can get through a gap, so can the cat.

It's no longer the big fish eating the small fish—it's the fast fish eating the slow fish.

Your only "security" is knowing what you do well. Knowing your areas of competence will give you freedom amid corporate politics and unexpected layoffs. Wayne Gretzky was once asked why he was such a great hockey player. He responded with an eloquent morsel of wisdom: "I simply went to where the puck was going to be." An average player would go where the puck was or is.

A world of flat organizations and tumultuous business conditions—and that's our world—punishes fixed skills and prizes elastic ones.

La serenidad no implica estar siempre calmado: implica haber aprendido a manejar las olas de las emociones con habilidad y agilidad.