Manage Quotes - Page 17

• What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Stories, Visceral

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

  Jack Welch

  Educational, Offering, Organization

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• I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

  Betty White

  Children, Thinking, Careers

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Responsibility, Avid, Role Models

  "Howard Wilkinson on Gary Speed: 'He leaves a huge, huge void'" by Howard Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

  Fred Wilson

  Team, People, Building

  "The Management Team While Building Product: Keep It Small" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Funny, Heart, People

  "India's Man for All Seasons". Interview with Siddharth Srivastava, www.atimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Organization, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Organization, People, Water

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• One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.69, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mean, Science, Carbon Cycle

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• We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

  Edward Abbey

  Survival, Machines, World

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• If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.

  John Irving

  Television, Alive, Feels

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Ocean, Silence, Arms

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• At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Women, Difficult Situations, Age

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Love Life, Adversity

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

  Arthur Golden

  Struggle, Worry, Effort

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.9, Random House

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• I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

  Meg Rosoff

  Credit, Enough

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• Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

  Lance Armstrong

  Book, Thinking, Men

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• There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Real, Decision, Lines

  "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Daughter, Mother, Simple

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• He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Inspiring, Memories, Heart

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• Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Daily Life, Thoughts On Life

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• Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Book, Irritation, People

  "A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time".

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• Women are the worst. They zero in on some guy.Oh boy, he's the one, gotta get me that one. So they do. Then they spend the rest of their time trying to figure out how to change him. Then if they manage it, they're not all that interested anymore, because guess what? He's not the one anymore.

  Nora Roberts

  Zero, Boys, Guy

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