Colleagues Quotes - Page 18

• Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

  John G. Miller

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Source: www.jmlalonde.com

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• Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

  Charles Handy

  Running, Communication, Worst Moments

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• There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

  Alan Clark

  Senior, Party, Political

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• Mr. Anwar is a respected colleague and a man of integrity, who in his capacity as finance minister showed strong dedication to enhancing the financial well-being of the Malaysian people.

  Paul Martin

  Strong, Integrity, Men

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• Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

  Nigel Short

  Sports, Exhibitions, Poor

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• There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

  Andrew Cohen

  Team, Defense, Able

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• Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

  Leverett Saltonstall

  Home, Naps, Should Have

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• When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

  Mike McCurry

  White, House, Belief

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• Periodically I just notch up. And everyone among my colleagues thinks that Perfidia - in its accessibility, its big throbbing heart - will be the biggest notch up yet. We'll see what happens. It's on my ass.

  James Ellroy

  Heart, Thinking, Ass

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Animal, Self

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• I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

  Bruce Schneier

  Security Systems, People, Cryptography

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Winning, Australia, Suffering

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• If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Successful, Sacrifice, Opportunity

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• Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Law, Circles, Mentor

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• I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Reflection, Principles

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• A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

  Orson Welles

  Encouragement, Needs, Bad Word

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Knowing, People, Feelings

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• Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Brain, Natural, Criteria

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene”, p.167, Oxford University Press

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• Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Men, Missing, Favors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership, not solely on employment or a title or a business plan. Technical colleagues will define "open" as "open standards," "interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match - all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next.

  Mitchell Baker

  Cutting, Views, Decision

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

  Lars Peter Hansen

  People, Economics, Broads

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• I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Healthy, Wish, Process

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• Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

  danah boyd

  Grease, Networking, Machines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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