Manages quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory. -- Marcie Leeper
  • And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction. -- John Motson
  • Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. -- Harold Geneen
  • Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. -- Sam Ewing
  • Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up. -- Joel Edgerton
  • I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains. -- Ellie Goulding
  • Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. -- Randall Jarrell
  • Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined. -- Eric Alterman
  • Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways. -- Richard C. Armitage
  • Peanut Butter M&Ms in the fridge, I always have a giant bag. Every cookie and candy I put in the fridge, it always manages to taste better when it's cold. -- Hilary Rhoda
  • Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so. -- Stephen Kinzer
  • How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity. -- Pierre Coffin
  • The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself. -- Karen Thompson Walker
  • I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. My e-mail in-box exploded, and I don't have that kind of time. My mom and sister have their whole life on Facebook, and I'm not there. -- Jason Mraz
  • The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too. -- Wesley Morris
  • I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters. -- Susan Orlean
  • I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. -- King Hussein I
  • Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure. -- Liam Neeson
  • We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse. -- David Attenborough
  • A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. -- Ayelet Waldman
  • There are many singers who have got an exceptional talent, but spend their lives singing in local trains or hotels. Does the country even know who they are? Music in India is restricted only to Bollywood. Whoever manages to make a mark there is remembered. The ones who fail to reach and make it big there are forgotten. -- Sonu Nigam
  • A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely, and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place. -- Albert King
  • Anger manages everything badly. -- Johannes Stadius
  • He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy. -- Paulo Coelho
  • He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself. -- Dan Maskell
  • Microsoft is a company that manages imagination. -- Bill Gates
  • He who manages the distance, manages the damage. -- Rener Gracie
  • Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly. -- Statius
  • No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form. -- John Welwood
  • Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources. -- Greg Mankiw
  • Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. -- Harold Geneen
  • Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should. -- Art Alexakis
  • Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability. -- Tim Brown
  • The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him. -- Rex Resurreccion
  • A woman who walks with God honors Him in the way she manages her home. -- Elizabeth George
  • Ego can't sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control. -- Robert K. Greenleaf
  • Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
  • I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner. -- Petter Stordalen
  • People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be. -- Gorgias
  • The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice. -- Jean Genet
  • It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. -- Louise Bourgeois
  • The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. -- Brooks Atkinson
  • The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay -- Goronwy Rees
  • After all, you're only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived. -- Simon R. Green
  • No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. -- Bob Parr
  • In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood. -- Andrew Tudor
  • We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us. -- Max Tegmark
  • A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results. -- Orrin Woodward
  • A passive mindset manages to live with mediocre, but an active mindset leads to change until excellence results. -- Orrin Woodward
  • She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it. -- Beverly Cleary
  • I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. -- Jason Mraz
  • What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. -- Len Wein
  • The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. -- Ted Hughes
  • Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. -- Clive James
  • Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. -- Carl Van Vechten
  • I love Chloe Sevigny's style - the way she manages to add a touch of rock n' roll to every look. -- Kristin Cavallari
  • It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us! -- Sue Barker
  • French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. -- Stephen Gardiner
  • No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. -- H. L. Mencken
  • The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. -- Peter Drucker
  • The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century, -- Achim Steiner
  • Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse. -- David Attenborough
  • I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away. -- Haruki Murakami
  • When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. -- Max Lerner
  • As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy. -- Sun Tzu
  • We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Lili manages to mix Kate Bush with modern influences to make a beautifully unique sound based around her amazing violin skills and soulful voice. -- Steve Lillywhite
  • I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. -- Keith Gessen
  • As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing. -- Mark Helprin
  • An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change. -- Archibald Marwizi
  • A lady should be respectful, is all he manages through gritted teeth. He pitches the towel in the corner.Miriam snortsThat's me. My fair fuckin' lady. -- Chuck Wendig
  • My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres. -- Danielle de Niese
  • Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth?the sun, the moon, the stars?with perfection, and yet we don't trust Him to manage our lives! -- Yasmin Mogahed
  • Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel. -- Franz Grillparzer
  • And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data. -- Freeman Dyson
  • Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning. -- Walt Disney
  • What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech. -- Vance Havner
  • There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation. -- Carla Hayden
  • Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
  • The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him. -- Julian Jarrold
  • As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter. -- Eric Maisel
  • Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time. -- Lee Johnson
  • Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover. -- Louis Menand
  • Look at Cillian Murphy: 'Batman,' 'Tron'... those are some heavy-hitting franchises. But he works his way around it. He manages to have a great career and a great life. -- Domhnall Gleeson
  • Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways. -- Richard Armitage
  • Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other. -- Tim Cahill
  • The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action. -- Walter Benjamin
  • Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt. -- Daniel Horan
  • There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things -- Alex Turner
  • Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. [Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti; Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat Impetus.] -- Statius
  • At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality. -- Mandy Moore
  • I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption. -- Neal Stephenson
  • Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime. -- Richard Hamming
  • Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. -- Marya Mannes
  • The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment. -- John Carroll
  • Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing. -- Amish Tripathi
  • If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change. -- Thomas Friedman
  • What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. -- Russell Baker
  • Euclid ... manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does. -- Lucio Russo
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share