Micromanagerial Quotes

#1. Uncivil, incompetent in fulfilling basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned, often putting self (and reelection) before country - this was my view of the majority of the United States Congress.

Robert M. Gates

#2. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

Edward Burgess Butler

#3. The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

John Dos Passos

#4. 'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a low grade, for agreeability without ambition.

Richard Corliss

#5. I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Foxy Brown

#6. Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer.

Donal Daly

#7. My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.

Matt Mullenweg

#8. Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

George Eliot

#9. Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.

George W. Bush

#10. Story is a fragile and ephemeral thing on its own, a thing that is easily effaced or disappeared or destroyed, and it is worth preserving.

Doug Dorst

#11. Well, after the nature of any great hero from the stories, he was going to do his best to avoid this particular trial.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Deepak Chopra

#13. I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.

Russ Feingold

#14. The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool.

Bernard Cornwell

#15. For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

Ryan Sheckler