Quotes About Staff

I love airports because funny things always happen at them. They're giant complexes full of urgency, seriousness, and confusion. Where am I supposed to be? Which way do I go? And that's just the staff.

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.

In Washington, there are jobs that have official titles: chief of staff, campaign manager, director of communications. Then there are all these vague and murky headings over people who are just special consultants or advisers. We really don't know what their gig is.

I decided to put Donna Summer on the cover of an issue in March 1978. Disco was considered the music of the anti-Christ by many, and the staff was up in arms.

The other three orderlies who accompanied him are critical in the hospital.' 'Critical?' 'Yes. Don't like the food, beds uncomfortable, waiting lists too long - usual crap. Other than that they're fine.

It has been long proved that everyone needs a butler.

rank-and-file staff rarely want to hire people more skilled than themselves.

My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

Congressional leaders on the Republican side are hoping chief of staff is [Reince] Priebus. They see Priebus as somebody who they can clearly work with.

There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' There's definitely an influence on 'Game of Thrones' from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies.

It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to work with so many dedicated SEC staff who strive every day to protect investors and ensure our markets operate with integrity.

As a manager, everyone is clambering for you to do something. It comes from the media, the fans, the board and even your own staff sometimes. The strongest thing can be to do nothing and remind the players of the simplicity of the format. The players have taken ownership of that.

We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.

Meeting the deadline is not what this is all about. What this is about is looking like you're trying your damnedest to meet the deadline. In this age of "lean and mean," it is positively unsafe for you to run the project with a lean (optimal) staff.

Your ability to reach students today is an indicator of your ability to reach your community a few years from now. Measure the percent of students in attendance as if your future depends on it. (Because it does!) And when your student ministry staff discovers a method that works, make sure your adult ministry staff knows about it so they can prepare for a coming shift in their ministries.

the Prussian General Staff was a self-regenerating institution, not dependent upon the random appearance of great leaders, because — among many other things — it automatically produced outstanding leaders.

Putting together an agenda before a staff meeting is like a marriage counselor deciding what issues she's going to cover with a couple prior to meeting with them.

Employees know that they ultimately pay the price when their manager doesn't get along with or cooperate with managers of other departments, leaving the staff to navigate the treacherous and bloody waters of organizational politics.

What is the real problem? Actually, there are two. First, meetings are boring. They are tedious, unengaging, and dry. Even if people had nothing else to do with their time, the monotony of sitting through an uninspired staff meeting, conference call, or two-day off-site would have to rank right up there with the most painful activities of modern business culture.

I see a trust problem here in the lack of debate that exists at staff meetings and other interactions among this team.

This rough magic I here abjure, and, when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.