Assistants Quotes - Page 2

• If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

  John Wooden

  Would Be, Today, Young

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• No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

  Joseph Addison

  Appreciation, Volunteer, World

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• A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

  Theodor Adorno

  Doe, Use, Rubber

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• A manager is an assistant to his men.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Men, Risk Management, Managers

  Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.384, Bantam

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• One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else

  Issey Miyake

  Underwear, Machines, Fabric

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• I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

  John Boorman

  Japan, Numbers, Directors

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• These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges

  Alistair Cooke

  War, College, Soldier

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• An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

  Jeremy Irons

  Love, Age, Acting

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.

  Megan Gallagher

  Vancouver, Helping, Help Me

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• We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Responsibility, Thinking

  Group interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Eight, Years

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• If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

  Daryl Hall

  Rooms, Superstar, Entourage

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• The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

  John Frankenheimer

  Directors, Importance

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• The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

  John Frankenheimer

  Choices, Important, Directors

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• Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

  Roger McGuinn

  Firsts, Strings, Janitor

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• I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Cameras, Would Be

  Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

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• I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

  Star Jones

  Senior, Division, Brooklyn

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• The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

  Terri Windling

  Nature, Jobs, Thinking

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• Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

  Richard Widmark

  Two Sides, Car, Would Be

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• A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Dog, Helping

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• I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

  Jane Fonda

  People, Waiting, Gas Stations

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• When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.

  Mike Lookinland

  College, Ukulele, Film

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• But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

  Harry Houdini

  Honor, Secrecy, Allegiance

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.43, 谷月社

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• So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

  John Frankenheimer

  Directors, Lasts, Seven

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• For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, Texas, Years

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