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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. -- Tommy Lasorda
Managing by results only makes things worse. -- W. Edwards Deming
Managing bottom-up change is its own art. -- Kevin Kelly
Managing your own property can be a full-time job. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin. -- Dick Costolo
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. -- Casey Stengel
Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone. -- Russell Brand
Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all. -- Howard Schultz
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference. -- Noreena Hertz
I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time. -- Gabriela Sabatini
Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often -- Steve McClaren
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses. -- Rick Levin
Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. -- William Weld
Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful! -- Randy Pausch
Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts. -- Tara Brach
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses. -- Rick Levin
Managing brands is going to be more and more about trying to manage everything that your company does. -- Lee Clow
Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great. -- James C. Collins
Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. -- Caroline Myss
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence. -- Peter Drucker
Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes. -- Robert S. Kaplan
Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. -- Sparky Anderson
Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish -- Ian Holloway
Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control. -- Douglas Merrill
Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under. -- Howard Schultz
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away. -- Tommy Lasorda
Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible. -- Charisse Montgomery
I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off. -- Mark Haddon
Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa. -- Archibald Marwizi
Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life. -- Dan Millman
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts. -- Henry Mintzberg
As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin. -- Dick Costolo
Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all. -- Carol Bartz
Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do. -- John Harvey-Jones
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries. -- Al Lopez
Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work. -- David Ogilvy
I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized. -- Bob McNair
An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on). -- Katharine Whitehorn
Managing stress is about controlling the way you respond to events and having an open mind about the things that stress you. Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give you peace and to help you with your problems -- Michele Woolley
It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do. -- Rory McIlroy
Managing perfect body weight is not a complicated rocket science. Our body is made up of food which we eat during our day to day life. If we are overweight or obese at the moment then one thing is certain that the food which we eat is unhealthy. -- Subodh Gupta
Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them. -- Doc Childre
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. -- Laozi
I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. -- Jeremy Grantham
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust. -- Ivan Krastev
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. -- Jack Welch
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'. -- Robert Foster Bennett
A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive. -- Robin S. Sharma
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds. -- Casey Stengel
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience. -- Chuck Tanner
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. -- Tommy Lasorda
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. -- Sylvia Plath
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time. -- Tony Buzan
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness. -- Tariq Ramadan
Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation. -- Roma Downey
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you. -- Rudy Giuliani
I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example. -- Tom Rath
I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy. -- Arsene Wenger
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Henry Ford
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body. -- Antonio Damasio
Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity. -- Darren L Johnson
For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit. -- Naomi Judd
While I strongly encourage my readers to take advantage of the Internet and social networking platforms to gain a greater understanding of their personal finances, it is extremely important to be safe, smart, and responsible when it comes to sharing, discussing, and managing your finances online. -- Alexa Von Tobel
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway. -- W. Edwards Deming
I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. -- Emily Watson
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well. -- Jack Nicklaus
One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends role-playing, managing resources and shouting at your friends. Again, if I had another thousand words, I might be able to scratch the surface of this game, but all you need to know is that gamers love to play it, and even more of them love to watch it. -- Rob Manuel
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. -- Laozi
How are you managing the velocity of change? -- Jim Blasingame
The product is second to managing the people. -- Andrea Jung
I love the pressure of managing Manchester United -- Manuel Pellegrini
Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus. -- Robin Sharma
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. -- Benjamin Graham
My father was in charge of managing the farm. -- Julia Child
Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing. -- Felipe Alou
If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less. -- Bobby Wallace
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. -- Ken Livingstone
My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion. -- Carrie Fisher
Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government. -- William Weld
I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both. -- Joe Torre
Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it. -- John P. Kotter
Running a small country and managing a game is almost synonymous. -- Frank Pearce
Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence. -- Gautam Adani
So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup. -- Sam Altman
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. -- Deborah Tannen
The older you get the more capable you get at managing life. -- Rachel Weisz
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo. -- Lewis Carroll
Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap. -- Evel Knievel
I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife. -- Ella T. Grasso
Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination -- William Bridges
We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior. -- Ken Blanchard
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills. -- Stuart Pearce
Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being. -- Kittie Frantz
Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting. -- John Kao
Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men. -- Joseph Conrad
We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance. -- Jay Weatherill
Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence. -- Jim Butcher
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. -- Jack Nicklaus
If I'm lucky, in a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha, -- Saul
Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline. -- George Jones
Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process. -- Ursula Burns
That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers. -- Jack Welch
Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism -- Jack Goldstone
The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized. -- Jude Bijou
If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself. -- William J. H. Boetcker
I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before. -- Martha Stewart
Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past. -- Sandra Postel
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity. -- David Rockefeller
Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager -- Ambrose Bierce
I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions. -- Earl Weaver
The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions. -- Walter Alston
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work. -- Sparky Anderson
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. -- Karl Marx
I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility. -- Laurence D. Fink
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner. -- Casey Stengel
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. -- Bob Woodward

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