Quotes & Sayings About Strategic Agility

The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul. — Milan Kundera

Most attribute the domain of night to evil because they can't see. People fear the shadows of the night because shadows represent the unknown, and the unknown is frightening. They assume evil lurks behind every shadow, in every corner not illuminated. But their fear of the unknown is often what really terrifies them. They find comfort seeing in the daylight for that reason, but the irony is they are often more blinded by their comfort than by the shadow of night. It's a pity. If they could overcome their fear of the unknown they might realize that the unknown is not evil, it is simply an opportunity waiting to be explored. The night is no more a domain of evil than the daylight, both were created good, both have evil lurking in them. When you can overcome your fear, the night becomes a domain of beauty interlaced with danger, and that is exciting! — M.R. Laver

I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.' — Christie Brinkley

[Andrei Sakharov] won his Nobel in 1975 for demanding a halt to the testing of nuclear weapons. He, of course, had already tested his. His wife was a pediatrician! What sort of person could perfect a hydrogen bomb while married to a child-care specialist? What sort of physician would stay married to a mate that cracked?
"Anything interesting happen at work today, honeybunch?"
"Yes. My bomb is going to work just great. And how are you doing with that kid with chicken pox? — Kurt Vonnegut

1SA2.1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. — Anonymous

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples. — Theodore Bikel

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy. — Wyclef Jean

And she said the most powerful and dangerous things were locked up behind doors of death with keys of pain in the hopes that people would realize life was far too precious and the power was not worth the price. — Megan Derr

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility. — Chuck Hagel

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same. — Heraclitus

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss. — Richard Simmons

Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility. — Pearl Zhu

For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved). — Aleksandar Hemon

The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that. — John Gimlette

What a silence when you are here. What
a hellish silence.
You sit and I sit.
You lost and I lose.
— Janos Pilinszky