Delegates Quotes - Page 2

• As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

  Jessica Jackley

  Night, Focus, Entrepreneur

  "PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: "I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.

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• In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

  Frederick Reines

  Atoms, Conferences, Geneva

  Frederick Reines, William R. Kropp, M. Moe, L. Price (1991). “Neutrinos and Other Matters: Selected Works of Frederick Reines”, p.15, World Scientific

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• It's very important, who has the most delegates. The superdelegates should not be the ones making the decision.

  Linda Chavez-Thompson

  Decision, Important, Should

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• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Father, Support, Drug

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• Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

  Hyman Rickover

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Unique

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

  Hideki Tojo

  Equality, Japan, Principles

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• I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.

  George Mason

  House, Able, Essentials

  Letter to Edmund Randolph, October 19, 1782.

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• I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Mean, People, Hierarchy

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• The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh

  John Hamill

  New York, Real, Oil

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• The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Book, Men, Rights

  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1903). “PONKAPOG PAPERS”

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• Freedom is as frightening now as it was thousands of years ago. It will always require a willingness to sacrifice what is most familiar for what is most true. To be free we may need to act from integrity, on trust, sometimes for a very long time. Few of us will reach our promised land in a day. But perhaps the most important part of the story is that God does not delegate this task. Whenever anyone moves toward freedom, God Himself is there.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Freedom, Integrity, Moving

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• When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Biographies, Rooms

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• Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

  Alex Ferguson

  Names, People, Advice

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• The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Way, Firsts

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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• You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Ideas, Thousand

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• I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

  James Altucher

  Entrepreneur, Trying, Would Be

  "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Son, Men

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• Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Responsibility, Order, People

  "Across the Great Divide: A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz". Interview with Charles Reinhardt, www.barnesandnoble.com. May 19, 2015.

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• The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!

  Augusto Boal

  Character, Thinking, Theatre

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• For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Creatures, Seems

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

  James H. Boren

  Funny, Business, Humor

  In 'New York Times' 8 November 1970, p. 45

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• The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Judging, Saint, Christ

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• The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

  Gore Vidal

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

  Graydon Carter

  Trying, Looks, Stuff

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• I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

  Mario Draghi

  People

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