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I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Quote by Scott Adams about heads, obstacles, principle, things, people

If your manager has nothing bad to tell you for too long...

If your manager has nothing bad to tell you for too long you will soon need their reference.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about heads, bad luck, need, bad, nothing

Well, she managed to Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

Quote by Ted Olson about mind

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my...

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about age, heads, criminals, writing, experience, world

I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a...

I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the background of the first Project album.

Quote by Alan Parsons about heads

I do appreciate that the most important thing as a...

I do appreciate that the most important thing as a manager is to get good results.

Quote by Stuart Pearce about contentment, heads, things, good, good luck

Truth travels only with the head up.

Truth travels only with the head up.

Quote by Tudor Musatescu about truth, heads

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision...

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Quote by Woody Allen about wife, heads, home, house

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Quote by Charles Babbage about heads

Talking Heads, were a sorta collegian kinda art school, ...

Talking Heads, were a sorta collegian kinda art school, I'm trying not to make them sound so bad cause I really love em.

Quote by Lester Bangs about heads, talking, school, bad luck, art, magic, bad, love

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Quote by Joe Baca about criminals, heads, education, school, need

Head Start is especially important to Latino children....

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Quote by Joe Baca about children, heads

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Quote by Joe Baca about chance, heads, ability, future, children

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Quote by Paula Abdul about artists, writing

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk...

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Quote by Joe Baca about risk, purpose, heads, nation, chance, children

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

Quote by Richard Bach about searching, thinking, happiness, life

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we...

Quote by John Abizaid about defeat, heads, nothing

I'd like to go, like they did in the time of Lysistrata, ...

I'd like to go, like they did in the time of Lysistrata, to send their generals and themselves into the head of that army.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about heads, time

I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was...

I lost a lot of weight. I'm thin as it is, but I was probably 50 pounds lighter; and if you're that skinny, your head starts acting sort of funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about heads

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about celebrity, heads, talking, man, people

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