Manage Quotes - Page 38

• I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

  Brad Delp

  Book, Thinking, Phones

  Interview with Pär Winberg, www.melodic.net. March 1999.

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• According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

  Nick Hancock

  Soccer, Football, Ocean

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• The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Law, Watches, Looks

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• Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Two, People, Leader

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• The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.

  Edgar Schein

  Leadership, Real, Creating

  "Organizational Culture and Leadership". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.

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• I could cut silhouettes almost as soon as I could manage to hold a pair of scissors. I could paint, too, and read, and recite; but these things did not surprise anyone very much. But everybody was astonished about the scissor cuts, which seemed a more unusual accomplishment. The silhouettes were very much praised, and I cut out silhouettes for all the birthdays in the family. Did anyone warn me as to where this path would lead? Not in the least; I was encouraged to continue.

  Lotte Reiniger

  Cutting, Accomplishment, Path

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• When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

  Max Lerner

  Believe, Evil, Literature

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• To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change how we manage them. Help protect our oceans so the next generation can also enjoy their bounty.

  Ted Danson

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

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• My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.

  John Ray

  Thinking, People, Reform

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• My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Want, Messages, Aviation

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• No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Men, Honor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.26, Knopf

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• There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Leadership, Party, Passion

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• I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Education, Thinking, Oxford

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• Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

  Adam Savage

  World, Lists

  "Adam Savage's first step of project planning: make a list". www.wired.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Successful, Insecure, Men

  "Essays in the Public Philosophy". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1955.

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• When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Blow, Power, Reality

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• One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  God, World, Know How

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• Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clever, Stupid, Men

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• I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

  Kajol

  Kitchen, Affair, Pot

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• It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Moderation, Restraint

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• Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

  Alan Perlis

  Progress, Language, Programming

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Believe, Men

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• There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

  Colleen McCullough

  Writing, Doubt, Difficult

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• What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Years, Two, People

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• I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

  Karen Duffy

  Trying, Energy, My Time

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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