Quotes About Seniority

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

That's what I used to tell her. And she'd say it's not the age, it's the seniority. She loves you. A lot. Feeling's mutual. What're you smiling at?

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.

Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.

Alaskans deserve a fighter in the United States Senate who will always stand up for Alaska, who understands our great potential, who has the experience, respect and seniority to accomplish that. I am that senator.

In the spring of 1919 La Guardia found himself still way down on the seniority list in a Congress described by muckraking editor H. L. Mencken as "petty lawyers and small-town bankers" and a "depressing gang of incompetents." All La Guardia could do was rail at "outrages" in speeches that few people paid attention to and cast votes that changed nothing. Not even the "progressives," such as Robert La Follette and George Norris, took him seriously.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

Most political operations - and government - don't try to be rigorous about decision-making or force themselves to think about what they know with what confidence. They are dominated by seniority, not evidence.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

these weeks and months of precious seniority slipping away – already Douglas of the Phoebe, Evans on the West Indies station, and a man he did not know called Raitt had been made; they were in the last Gazette and now they were ahead of him on the immutable list of post-captains; he would be junior to them for ever.

The very best thing about getting old was basking in this great big not-giving-a-shit.

I really like those old shows. I've decided the way to know you're becoming an old fogey is when the only shows you like are sponsored by Depends, the Scooter Store, and Viagra.

she could not be less than seventy-three or -four, and to judge by her appearance, altered though it was by illness and makeup, she could be no more than eighty.

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

What counts is how many years you get before losing your marbles,

Old age is but the reduced capacity of a failing machine.

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.