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Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. -- William Shakespeare
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it. -- Alexis Ohanian
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. -- John Entwistle
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. -- Izaak Walton
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. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. -- William Shakespeare
Future companies will be smaller and more nimble. -- Peter Diamandis
We seek to be as nimble as a startup. -- Beth Comstock
Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world. -- Natalie Massenet
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. -- John Milton
We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines. -- Clive Thompson
Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. -- Thomas Otway
In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet! -- Eleanor Farjeon
For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot. -- Cate Blanchett
If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay. -- Rob Walton
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. -- Winston Churchill
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. -- Charles Duhigg
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. -- George Santayana
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. -- Anna Maria Chavez
A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes. -- William Shakespeare
I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world. -- Joseph McGinty Nichol
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. -- Ryan Holmes
Youth is full of 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, and age is tame. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Nelson Mandela
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. -- William Shakespeare
It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air! -- Oscar Wilde
It's a great time for independent media because technology reduces the entry barrier. It makes it a phenomenal time for media in general. It's David versus Goliath, and David is always a little smarter, more nimble, more fast. -- Sasa Vucinic
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. -- Sakyong Mipham
It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest. -- Robert Lacey
One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad' takes you on a fast-paced trip down a tunnel filled with lights and a shifting list of rules to keep your neurons nimble. -- Rob Manuel
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works. -- Tom Robbins
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! -- Fanny Burney
Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. -- James Wolcott
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. -- Eric Ries
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. -- Joseph McGinty Nichol
Kids are more nimble than wise... -- Nancy Gibbs
A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule. -- D. H. Lawrence
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick. -- Chubby Checker
You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead. -- William Shakespeare
We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. -- Emily Dickinson
There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble. -- Marc Andreessen
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning. -- William Shakespeare
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend. -- Don McLean
We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan. -- Ben Huh
You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing. -- David Oyelowo
A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man. -- John Winthrop
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. -- William Shakespeare
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. -- Sinclair Lewis
Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving. -- Meridith Valiando Rojas
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. -- Joel Miller
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 -- Mira Grant
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. -- Lindsey Buckingham
This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are. -- John Wesley
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. -- John Collison

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