Administrative Quotes - Page 2

• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Smile, Wise

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• Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

  Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

  Joseph Priestley

  Fire, Color, Genius

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• I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

  Scott Adams

  Creativity, Trying, Stuff

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

  Grace Abbott

  Moving On, Agency, Government

  Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

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• Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Elderly, Twenties, Would Be

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.6, RosettaBooks

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• Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.

  Herbert Simon

  Simple, Men, Decision

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• In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Purpose, Cost, Care

  "Mrs. Clinton Unveils Her New Socialist Health Care Program". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 17, 2007.

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• In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

  John Burns

  Men, Numbers, Political

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• I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Strong, Believe, Iraq

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• Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.

  Edward Kennedy

  Agency, Cost, Gone

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• [I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

  Tony Benn

  Philosophy, Rome, Laissez Faire

  "Encounter" Magazine, January 1963.

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• The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.

  Edward Tufte

  Ideas, Information, Computer

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• You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

  Birch Bayh

  Justice, Process, Ought

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• There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Men, Discipline

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• When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.

  Dean Burk

  Lying, People, Generations

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• Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where the government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where the administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal

  Frederic Bastiat

  Country, Government, Law

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.57, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

  Frank Murphy

  Liberty, Agents, Priceless

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• Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Passion, Biblical

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• There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Running, Military, Struggle

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (1918). “Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan”

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• If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Doe, Layers

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• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  J. B. Priestley

  Fire, Order, Sound

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• I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

  Harold H. Greene

  Fun, Cities, Political

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• I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

  Jimmy Wales

  Running, Real, Company

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• The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Organization, Purpose

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