Quotes About Delegate

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

When in doubt, mumble when in trouble, delegate when in charge, ponder.

We will not have any of these cases in the Soviet Union," said a Soviet delegate confidently. Don Francis couldn't resist saying to Marc Conant in his loudest stage whisper, "And they won't, all right." In a stern Russian accent, Francis continued: "You have AIDS—bang, bang, bang." The Soviets were not amused.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.

Never give power of attorney.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Emerging from the caucus, Johnson told reporters that he had no plans to release his delegates; "My name will stay as long as the American people are interested.

Many families think of church as if it was a convention - they send one delegate.

12. Be More Aggressive at Work. Take Credit for What You Do. Do Not Let Other People Take Advantage of You. Ask for Any Promotions or Raises You Might Be Entitled To. Delegate Responsibilities to Other People.

Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.

I think you have to teach kids to work, and you can only teach them to work if you work... I can't delegate jobs if I'm not doing it.

I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.

Striving for balance forces a leader to invest time and energy in aspects of leadership where he will never succeed. It is not realistic to strive for balance within the sphere of our personal leadership abilities. …discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

You can still do that here? Deputize people?

You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want to happen to happen you may well have to inspire and drive it all.

To ABLEGATE  (A'BLEGATE)   v.a.[ablego, Lat.] To send abroad upon some employment; also to send a person out of the way that one is weary of.Dict.  

Further diffusing its authority, the Commune established executive commissions, the equivalent of ministries, each run by a delegate. Commissions were to convene twice a day at the Hôtel-de-Ville, and these long and increasingly contentious meetings often lasted well into the night and wasted considerable time discussing issues of little to no importance.

Running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.

But running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.