Obert Skye book Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Source: Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Quotes about management page 3
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
Variant: Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
“How do you always manage to decide?"
"How can you let others decide for you?”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Quintana of Charyn
“If your class defines dunder “enter” and dunder “exit”, it’s a context manager.”
Head First Python: A Brain-Friendly Guide
“I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”
Meg Rosoff book How I Live Now
Source: How I Live Now
Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 2
Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
“proper attention and management, less irritable, less”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Source: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) p. xxii
“I'm going to be here until I'm cured?"
"Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
Variant: Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Surrender
“As you manage your money, you manage your life.”
Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer
“Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“If we could manage any sort of trust again… Well. That would make me happier than you can imagine”
Richelle Mead (1976) American writer
Source: Shadow Heir
“You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.”
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
Source: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 21
“Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Source: The Lost Colony
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 17
Context: Later, hiding in the latrine from the black boys, I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
Charles Stross book The Fuller Memorandum
Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 2, “Pointing the Finger” (p. 32)
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Katniss and Finnick, p. 316
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
“So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Source: The Secret Garden
“Employers are like horses — they require management.”
P.G. Wodehouse book Carry On, Jeeves
Source: Carry on, Jeeves
“People leave managers, not companies”
Marcus Buckingham (1966) British writer
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: On the Edge
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: On the Edge
Simon R. Green (1955) British writer
Source: The Bride Wore Black Leather
“Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“Reflections on Wallace Stevens”, p. 134; conclusion
Poetry and the Age (1953)
Context: How necessary it is to think of the poet as somebody who has prepared himself to be visited by a dæmon, as a sort of accident-prone worker to whom poems happen — for otherwise we expect him to go on writing good poems, better poems, and this is the one thing you cannot expect even of good poets, much less of anybody else. Good painters in their sixties may produce good pictures as regularly as an orchard produces apples; but Planck is a great scientist because he made one discovery as a young man — and I can remember reading in a mathematician’s memoirs a sentence composedly recognizing the fact that, since the writer was now past forty, he was unlikely ever again to do any important creative work in mathematics. A man who is a good poet at forty may turn out to be a good poet at sixty; but he is more likely to have stopped writing poems, to be doing exercises in his own manner, or to have reverted to whatever commonplaces were popular when he was young. A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.
Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes