Office Quotes - Page 20

• Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

  George W. Bush

  Running, Principles, Want

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• Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Home, Thinking, Levels

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• I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

  Robert Mueller

  Thinking, Numbers, Towers

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• Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

  Pope Francis

  Everyday, Lines, Assembly

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• My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.

  Niels Diffrient

  Lying, Two, Body

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• I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

  Isaac Deutscher

  Fall, Loss, Men

  Isaac Deutscher (2003). “The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921”, p.7, Verso

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• A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

  Mark Foley

  Energy, Cost, Damage

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• Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.

  J. Cole

  Mom, Dream, Jobs

  "J. Cole tributes his mom Kay Cole in Born Sinner series" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 8, 2013.

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• I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.

  James M. Cain

  Country, Writing, Character

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• I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.

  Andy Stern

  Running, Voice, Issues

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• I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Trying, Schedules, Want

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• I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Jobs, New Orleans, Phones

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• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Authority

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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• My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, War, Lying

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• I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Real, Thinking, Games

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• The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

  Jane Austen

  Rain, Thinking, Age

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.213, Modern Library

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• [Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

  Ann Coulter

  Couple, Italian, Clothes

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• I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

  Kajol

  Believe, Thinking, Choices

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• I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Fun, Posts, Locals

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• I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

  Robert E. Lee

  Party, Intelligent, Men

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.241, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

  John Philip Sousa

  Men, President, Pageantry

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• Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Winning, Men, Self

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

  Andy Grove

  Time, Pieces, Stealing

  Computer Decisions, Volume 16, p. 128, 1984.

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• I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.

  Gunter Grass

  Uncles, Children, Law

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• No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

  Thomas E. Dewey

  Men, Should, More Money

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