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  • Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

    Work   Long   Poison  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
  • When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

    Knowing   Feelings   Mind  
    Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.152, Harmony
  • Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

    Art   Nature   Animal  
    Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.18
  • I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

    Running   Moving   Order  
    Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr
  • Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

    Summer   Sports   Winter  
    William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics
  • How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

    Light   Three   Nimble  
  • For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

    "The Dynamics of Change — A New Vision for a New Girl Scouting Century" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.
  • While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades.

    Thinking   Track   Goal  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Kids are more nimble than wise.

    Wise   Kids   Nimble  
  • Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

    Fire   Games   Devil  
  • His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

    Names   People   House  
    Babbitt ch. 1 (1922)
  • I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.228, Pan Macmillan
  • A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

    Men   Tongue   Nimble  
  • The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.

    Loss   People   Decision  
  • As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  • We seek to be as nimble as a startup.

    Nimble  
  • Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

  • You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

    Shoes   Dancing   Soul  
    William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.205, Classic Books Company
  • Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet Dance sedately; face to face they gaze, Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.

    Children   Eye   Two  
    Laurence Binyon (1926). “Laurence Binyon”
  • Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

  • For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

    Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.
  • A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.

    Song   Cities   Smell  
    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.590, NYU Press
  • Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

    Love   Wind   Wings  
    William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.158, Cambridge University Press
  • When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

  • I'm old enough to remember the advent of CD. You thought, "What's this piece of space age technology that's in front of me?" Now I ask, "When's the last time you bought a CD?" You see things come and you see things go, and you have to be on your toes and be nimble and stay with it, or you die. It's exciting. I love technology.

    Technology   Cds   Space  
    Source: collider.com
  • But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

    Death   Eye   Heart  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4596, e-artnow
  • Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

  • Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds

    Horse   Military   Brave  
  • I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

    Song: Holiday Road
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