Staff Quotes - Page 20

• And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

  Nolan Ryan

  Opportunity, Organization, Appreciate

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• My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Believe, Japan, Surrender

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• The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

  Dick Morris

  Presidential, Political, Vices

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.

  Richard Branson

  Party, Together, Evening

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• We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim's shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.98, Penguin

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• I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.

  Tom Fontana

  Writing, Violin, Tubas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

  Herman Melville

  War, Fighting, Men

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.304

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• I wasn’t invited to be on staff at the Simpsons because they didn’t want any women on staff at the time.

  Mimi Pond

  Want, Invited

  "Mimi Pond roasts 'Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,' the Simpsons premiere she wrote 25 years ago". Interview with Andy Dubbin, splinternews.com. December 18, 2014.

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• I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I’ve been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.

  Lou Lamoriello

  Player, Games, People

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• A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

  Marshall Cook

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

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• I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Cheating, Teammate

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• In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  True Love, Believe, Pride

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• In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Hate, Winning, White

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.

  Michael Rasmussen

  Crazy, Believe, Character

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

  Paul Clark

  Change, Responsibility, Habit

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• I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

  Duke of Wellington

  Army, Infamous, Weak

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1838). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.358

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• Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Doubt, President

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• If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

  David K. Shipler

  Airports, Tasks, Borders

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• My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true.

  Harry Reid

  Summer, Smell, Tourists

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• I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Years, Europe

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• As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

  Jeanne Woodford

  Tonight, Answers, World

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• To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

  George Washington

  War, Broken, Militia

  George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.61

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• Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that
  And manage it against despairing thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Lovers, Walks

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.94, Oxford University Press

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• When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.

  Richard Sibbes

  Country, Men, Hands

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• In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Player, Games

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