I don’t know how to dance, and I don’t have any extra flexible skills.
Kate Winslet is incredible. She’s so lovely and so flexible, and she’s got three kids, and she’s flying internationally to work. It’s amazing to see strong women doing what they want to do and doing it well.
Part of being a comic is being flexible, being versatile.
This is part of what makes me, ahem, an excellent houseguest: I’m game. I’m flexible. I’ll make you feel okay about eating an entire chocolate cake in one sitting because I’m right there by your side with my own fork.
What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.
The government has to be flexible in Air India sale price, structure, and employee management plan.
Set goals but be flexible.
I have some cool talents. I’m really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I’m a big athlete and especially love soccer.
If colleges and universities are really concerned about women’s rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.
Every time you’re given a job, you’re given a gift, and if you’re flexible, you never know what’s going to happen.
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.
Out in the field, I feel like I’m flexible enough to where I’m comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
With yoga, it works every part of the body and increases range of motion. People think you get super flexible and you lose your power in sport. I’m getting back to normal because I’m so wound up and tight.
The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you’re at war, you’re at war.
To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.
Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.
You have to be flexible according to patterns and needs of director.
As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible – literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.
I’ve been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn’t going to be ‘Apocalypse Now,’ and every director doesn’t have to be Stanley Kubrick.
While a physical barrier can be effective in urban areas, each sector of the border faces unique geographical, cultural and technological challenges that would be best addressed with a flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers the Border Patrol agents on the ground with the resources they need.
As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We’re insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it’s a case of besser wissen – we know better. That’s very Deutsch. People are never frightened to tell you what you’re doing wrong, in a way that would never happen in England.
The way in which you accomplish your goals and help your customers needs to be very flexible depending upon how those customers are reacting in real time.
I am not one of those girls who can just land in a split. I need to warm up to be flexible.
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you’d even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I’m a very good thumb wrestler.
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the ’70s is utterly bizarre.
And as an actor – or even as a person in the industry – if you’re unwilling to change, you’re just going to get swamped. You’ve got to be flexible, and you’ve got to go with the flow. That’s what I try to do as an actor.
Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible – but also more optional.
There’s something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There’s definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you’re afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.
I need the VA to be flexible enough to send me outside for care.
When you’re hypermobile, it’s easy to think your muscles are flexible, but your flexibility is really around your joints and not your muscles.
I keep myself flexible; I just compete at my normal body weight.
Even at the age of 33 I was one of the most flexible at Arsenal when it came to my back muscles.
My pantry pastas fall somewhere in the middle of the time spectrum. They’re simple, streamlined, and flexible, with unfussy yet massively flavorful sauces that come together in the time it takes to boil water and cook pasta.
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
As children know, there’s lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.
It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It’s kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.
I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.
Looking back, my style was pretty much Marvel house style – very large, thick characters, very musclebound, not very flexible.
Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.
I think the real problem is it’s easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.
While many governments are committed to maintaining flexible regimes for fast-moving Internet technologies, some others have been quite explicit about their desire to put a single U.N. or other intergovernmental body in control of the Net.
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn’t have access to other types of music could never do. It means I’m more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
I do a lot of yoga, it keeps you flexible and you recover from injury quickly and I try to keep my heart rate up the entire time.
It’s one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I’m so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world.
There are people who have been in this game much longer than myself. And one of the things that I’ve learned by way of just watching is to stay flexible because you never know what may pop up.
My flexibility is probably my No. 1 asset. Obviously we need to have a strong shoulder, strong scapula, strong lats, and a durable elbow to have longevity as a pitcher, but being mobile in the hips and flexible in the hamstrings takes so much pressure and stress off of my arm.
For exercise, I am doing a lot of Pilates. I am very tight and not very flexible, and so it is a nice balance between stretching and doing exercises.
The luxury market and its consumer are very flexible and reactive.
Radio had been very good to me as a car dealer. It’s flexible, and it’s fast – you can get on the air in an hour and change your message – and compared to other types of media, it’s very good value.
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes you more flexible in the workplace. But our employers, our colleagues, don’t necessarily understand.
I love my gymnastics and a flexible body, so I indulge in a lot of yoga from that aspect.
People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook – qualities they believe they’ve simply always had. My colleagues and I call this a false growth mindset.
