Nimble Quotes

The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision – a way to be more successful – they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

One week you may be an actor, and the next week you had to be nimble enough to be a TV host. And the week after that, you might have to do some stand-up or be in an improv company or write and sing a song somewhere.

On ‘Mr. Robot,’ because I run the writers‘ room and know every decision behind every line of dialogue, I’m able to be nimble and adapt with the scripts and the moments. I never have to question what I’m doing as I’m directing the actors or going through the scenes.

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

The United Nations needs to be nimble, efficient, and effective.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.

We’re dumber and less cognitively nimble if we’re not around other people – and, now, other machines.

Karate probably gave me an incredibly deep awareness of all the parts of me, my flexibility, and the nimble qualities I’m doing, even if they’re unconscious.

I don’t mind my team being less physically strong in exchange for more mobility and nimble, swift transitions.

The obvious challenge to both SAG and AFTRA is remaining current in a rapidly changing industry. We have to be nimble, pro-active, and unified, and we’ve got to bring compelling value to future members.

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.

The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content – delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers – social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.

I think educational systems have to be more nimble, have to be more adapted to today‘s realities where students can go in different directions and professionalize even faster. Constant retraining and reskilling and upskilling, whatever you want to call it, of the workforce.

If I’ve got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I’ll be okay.

Moderating a debate means spending more time with briefing books than with your children. It means writing and rewriting and rephrasing. It means finding a way to be alert enough to notice when your question goes unanswered and nimble enough to decide what you will do about that on the spot.

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.

I’m rereading Jenny Offill’s ‘Dept. of Speculation.’ I love it, and she‘s just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it’s mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.