Best 62 quotes in «colleagues quotes» category

Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.

You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.

A book is a treasure of life.

First coming aboard, a new arrival makes a cautious survey of the crew, trying to winnow the affable and good-natured from the surly and truculent. Some of the crewmen will seem easygoing, happy-go-lucky, good-fellows-all; others may appear to be reserved or even aloof. Yet I found that at the end of a voyage these aloof ones were often the persons whom I grew to like and respect the most, while those who seemed so agreeable turned out to be rascals.

Arrogance never takes you anywhere. If you're arrogant and try to subvert your subordinates just remember time changes and you May not be in the position someday. They are younger and they will be in the power at that time. Power and position is never slave to someone, it moves with time.

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.

Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.

Even though we remain the same person, we have different types of relationships with our parents, children, spouse, relatives, friends, teachers, students, colleagues and neighbours. Each type of relationship fulfils a need which other relationships can’t fulfil. A happy person is one who maintains all types of relationships in life.

He was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the pain she was in. Yet the revelation had caused certain other feelings—feelings he usually kept under tight rein, considering them both misguided and dangerous—to flex inside him, to test their strength against their restraining bonds.

People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

It is possible to change yourself and change ‘your’ world. Your world consists of a small number of people like your family, friends, relatives and colleagues. By living peacefully with them, you can surely make your world better. If you are still left with more energy and life, then you can try and change the rest of the world.

On fréquente les gens pendant des années, parfois des dizaines d'années, en s'habituant peu à peu à éviter les questions personnelles et les sujets réellement importants ; mais on garde l'espoir que plus tard, dans des circonstances plus favorables, on pourra justement aborder ces sujets, ces questions ; la perspective indéfiniment repoussée d'un mode de relation plus humain et plus complet ne s'efface jamais tout à fait, simplement parce que c'est impossible, parce qu'aucune relation humaine ne s'accommode d'un cadre définitivement étroit et figé. La perspective demeure, donc, d'une relation "authentique et profonde" ; elle demeure pendant des années, parfois des dizaines d'années, jusqu'à ce qu'un événement définitif et brutal (en général de l'ordre du décès) vienne vous apprendre qu'il est trop tard, que cette relation "authentique et profonde" dont on avait caressé l'image n'aurait pas lieu, elle non plus, pas davantage que les autres. (Les particules élémentaires, 3e partie, chapitre 1)

I don’t really like them, either (but I pretend I do).

Working in a company is euphoric and it is even blissful because of the people who treated you as family.

There were times in meeting I was called a baby sitter, a social worker by my colleagues. Now that we have a different leader, he looks at it the way I look at it, and he supported me in what I was doing. There were times he saw me crying, and he would comfort me and say that’s okay. Commissioner Paul Farquharson was one of my biggest supporters. It used to hurt me, because I was trying to help somebody and they say I was babysitting. Don’t tell me I am babysitting, now that I have retired now I am babysitting. So not because I was trying to reach out and work with those children, don’t say I was babysitting them. I work the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for 22 years and I was rough in CID. I realize CID was the end result, because whenever you get to that stage you are almost finished. It is in line with the broken window theory, if you can save those youngsters before they start committing those big offenses, then they wouldn’t reach CID. Crime prevention was a part of my job, I believe in going out there and trying to prevent that youngster from committing crime. He should respect other people’s property. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decision. Am I truly less talented, less audacious, less erudite, less brave than my more quote-unquote literary colleagues?

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

Deliver infinite growth having your customers talk about you, exclaim you and tell their friends and colleagues about you.

Be generous with your colleagues and your competitors. When people learn that they do well whenever they work with you, they will be more willing to come to you with opportunities.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

Did you get hungry and eat my colleagues?

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

I consider the decision of my colleagues and friends to be the best birthday present.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine friend. Robert Rodriguez is a genuine friend. Rick Richard Linklater is a genuine friend. Eli Roth is a genuine friend. And so is Edgar Wright.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

I've never been motivated by money. My peers and colleagues inspire me.