Top 1200 Great Office Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Having a path to elected office was never the goal for me.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and even more so because we're nonfiction.

I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

I'm very fortunate to work with a great group of guys that are great coaches, great motivators, excited about what they do, have a lot of enthusiasm and are excellent coaches.

Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

The youth don't vote lawmakers into office, and as a result, they don't work for them.

I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.

In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.

Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.

I would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

The great thing for me is I wasn't a great player - I managed at the lower level and managed to be successful and that gives great hope to everyone else.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.

Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.

I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently.

The early '90s was the best time for hip-hop. The Cube's, the Snoop's, the Dre's - that was a golden time with great music, great albums, great groups, everything.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

I always want there to be room for people to connect. That is so important, especially in an office.

It's good to do something different than the subtleties of 'The Office' all the time.

That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

We must face facts. I have made that my guiding principle in office.

The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

I had beautiful years with Southampton - great club, great people, great supporters - and I'm very proud of my four years.

I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.

I haven't ruled out another run for office at some point.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.