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Quotes About Colleagues

I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work.
~ John B. Goodenough
A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
~ Lars Peter Hansen
To his colleagues' dismay, Cotton did not completely agree with the others on doctrine, and Hutchinson "did conceive that we were not able ministers of the gospel," the Salem minister Hugh Peter lamented. In sum, "she was a woman not only difficult in her opinions, but also of an intemperate spirit.
~ Eve LaPlante
Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.
~ F. Sionil Jose
What, exactly, are you doing?" "Dog-sitting." "Dog-sitting. Are all of your colleagues going out of town at the same time?" My mom was patient as a saint, but she said the word colleague as if it were coated with the oil drained off a can of tuna fish.
~ Haven Kimmel
I was still working at Google when I wrote the blog post '10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings.' I was scared to share it at first because I didn't want my coworkers to think that I was making fun of them - which I totally was. But then afterward I had people coming up to me like, 'I have a meeting trick! Put my meeting trick in your next post!'
~ Sarah Cooper
You don't keep in contact with many of the people you work with because there are so many. Acting's just a transient job, very occasionally you'll meet people and really hit it off but generally you just know people to say hello to.
~ Helen Baxendale
Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.
~ Saroo Brierley
I will be working with my colleagues in the Congress to ensure that the federal government devotes as much attention to the domestic and transnational threat of white nationalist violence as it rightly has to all forms of terrorism.
~ Tom Malinowski
So as you are beginning your day anchor yourself in the truth. Know that all is well. Extend this to your friends, colleagues and all that you meet. That life is for YOU! It is never against you.
~ Michael Beckwith
They were conventional people who assumed that conventions made the world go round, which, of course, they usually do. In any case, they didn't really believe in the possibility of change, and so did not bring the passion of revolutionaries to their work. As one of their NEA colleagues explains it, 'Phil and Bill were totally unwilling to work nights and weekends, to write a business plan, brainstorm, spend time with Jim during the off hours, etc.
~ Michael Lewis
I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
~ Eden Sher
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
~ Laura Wasser
As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
~ Dakota Blue Richards
When you spend your day writing comedy, particularly with others, the discussion of jokes and how far to push things with a group of unoffendable colleagues means that your grasp of what is acceptable in normal conversation is often skewed.
~ Romesh Ranganathan
I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
~ Jack Dee
Do you know why Tillerson was able to say he didn't call the president a 'moron'?" McConnell would dryly ask colleagues in his Kentucky drawl. "Because he called him a 'fucking moron.
~ Bob Woodward
Their colleagues soon nicknamed Feynman "The Mosquito" and Bethe "The Battleship.
~ Kai Bird
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'
~ Kal Penn
I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.
~ Blake Farenthold
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
~ Hanoi Hannah
Our colleagues don't sound happy," Björk said with concern. "It's never popular to bring in someone from your own force. It's going to be a dismal winter because of this.
~ Henning Mankell
I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.
~ Demetri Martin