I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

- Eric Bana

For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

- Hans Vestberg

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

- Hilary Mantel

I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

- Heather Brooke

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents. But a lot of people would be surprised to know that writers are pretty flexible when it comes to their work.

- Glenn Ficarra

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

- Glen Mazzara

I really have to give the Navy all the credit it deserves. They were so flexible and accommodating, given that everybody on board had better things to worry about than this person coming on board who's just going to be in the way, really.

- Geoff Dyer

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

- G-Eazy

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

- Felix Baumgartner

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

- Eugene Ormandy

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

- Everett Dirksen

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

- Eliot Spitzer

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

- Edward de Bono

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.

- Donald E. Westlake

For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.

- Daniel Wu

It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.

- Craig Armstrong

The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.

- Chris Squire

I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.

- Ann Packer

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

- Alison Gopnik