Boss Quotes - Page 16

• I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Ideas, Waiting

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• We need to gather everyone we can. Damien scoffed. Uh, boss, hate to be a pall, but I think everyone we can gather is currently in this room. Sin paused to look at Simi, Xirena, Damien, Kat, Kish, and Xypher. It was a pitiful number of defenders. But it was all the world had. In that case, we need to seriously arm ourselves. Damien crossed himself. Hail Mary, full of grace- What are you doing? Kish asked. You're not Catholic. Yeah but I'm feeling really religious all of a sudden and it seemed like a good idea.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Religious, Hate, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Devil May Cry”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eye, Winter, Boys

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• You have to learn to follow your heart. You can’t let other people pressure you into being something that you’re not. If you want God’s favor in your life, you must be the person He made you to be, not the person your boss wants you to be, not even the person your parents or your husband wants you to be. You can’t let outside expectations keep you from following your own heart.

  Joel Osteen

  Husband, Heart, People

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• I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stories, Happy Endings, Figures

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• J.D. nodded. Yes, yes, fine, thank you. Nice attitude, by the way. Like boss, like secretary.

  Julie James

  Attitude, Nice, Way

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.102, Penguin

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• Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Responsibility, Animal

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.

  Lisi Harrison

  Fire, Starting Over, Good Boss

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• A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

  Lisi Harrison

  Next, Problem, Can Do

  Lisi Harrison (2009). “The Clique #11: Boys R Us”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your boss is going to expect a full week's worth of work, no matter how understanding she is. That's just the nature of the working world-things have to get done, babies or not. And if you're like me-if you're like any woman who ever did well in school and did well at her job-you don't want to disappoint a boss. And you want to do a good job raising your baby...It's not like you think it's going to be

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Jobs, School

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• Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Blow, Years

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin

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• It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

  Srikumar Rao

  People, Hong Kong, Toxic

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• Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While you cannot speed up the process, you can slow it down at any point by setting the dough in a cooler place [...] then continue where you left off, when you are ready to do so. In other words, you are the boss of that dough.

  Julia Child

  Hands, Care, Speed

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• With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

  Judd Rose

  Crazy, Abuse, Nothing New

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• If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

  Ivanka Trump

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find yourself sad only in situations where you cannot be angry. The boss in the office says something and you cannot be angry; it is uneconomical. You cannot be angry and you have to go on smiling - then you become sad. The energy has become inactive. You come home, and with your wife you find a small thing, anything irrelevant, and you become angry.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Home, Sadness

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• Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Home, Engagement

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• On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across

  Wendy Cope

  Goodbye, Song, Heart

  Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check the name on the door so as not to call the new boss by the former boss's name.

  Ginger Rogers

  Doors, Years, Names

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something." And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge." And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Night, Men, Judging

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.286, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a world of bosses, you are your own master

  John Grogan

  World, Masters

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• Hey, boss? (Vik) Not now, Vik. (Syn) Dude, listen to the metallic life form. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hey, Form, Metallic

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• There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

  Jim Butcher

  Skulls, Evil, Sound

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.117, Penguin

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• Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

  Bob Schieffer

  Thinking, Decision, Stories

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• I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Trying, Prove

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