Operators Quotes

• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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• Operator! Give me the number for 911!

  Dan Castellaneta

  Numbers, Giving, Funny Simpsons

  "The Simpsons: Bart vs. Thanksgiving". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

  Deb Caletti

  Syrup, Want, Prison

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

  Ray Kroc

  Focus, Quality, Reputation

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.70, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

  Lee Trevino

  Distance, Golf, Long

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• The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ.

  John L. Lewis

  Struggle, Acceptance, Economic Inequality

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• The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

  Wendell Berry

  Book, Writing, Culture

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.152, Counterpoint Press

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• Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

  Garth Nix

  Home, Play, Telephones

  Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.127, Hot Key Books

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• I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

  Monte Irvin

  Sports, Baseball, Teacher

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• We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle.

  Samuel Morse

  Taken, Character, Science

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• In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.

  Ilchi Lee

  Order, Brain, Firsts

  Ilchi Lee (2005). “Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living”, p.151, Healing Society

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Europe, Years, World

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• Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Netflix, Video, Kind

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• Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

  Steven Pressfield

  Independent, Artist, Thinking

  "From Cabbie to Best-Selling Author: Steve Pressfield on ‘Turning Pro’" by Greg Clarkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Phones, Cells, Use

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• Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Law, Bridges, Justice

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• Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Giving, Trying, Investing

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• Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

  Conrad Black

  Successful, Media

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• I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Doors, Judging

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

  Daniel Handler

  Horse, Mistake, Media

  "The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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• His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

  Jack Newfield

  Brother, Selfish, Ambition

  Jack Newfield (1969). “Robert Kennedy: a memoir”

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• We know that ATT is upgrading their TCI network to provide voice services, but we believe that upgrade will go beyond that, for total interactivity at very reliable rates. Video telephone calls, downloading music videos, television broadcasts, online newspapers - all of this would be in digital mode. I think they certainly intend to be the one-stop shop and once they do that, it will force the other multiple system operators to follow suit.

  Robert Rosenberg

  Believe, Thinking, Voice

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• Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

  Edward Felten

  Needs, Reasonable, Manage

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• Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.

  Ilana Mercer

  Fighting, Gay, Blood

  "Beware of Liberals in Libertarian Drag". www.wnd.com. November 7, 2013.

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• A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Fighting, Enemy, Expensive

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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