"The smaller the function, the greater the management."

-- C. Northcote Parkinson

#Management Quotes #Function Quotes

“Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.”
“I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.”

Source : "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
“I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'”
“My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.”
“I used to be absolutely addicted to the gym and I do still love it.”

Source : "Freema Agyeman: 'Life's going so well - I'm on a high'". www.mirror.co.uk. March 15, 2009.
“I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.”
“A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest”
“When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.”

Source : Bill Amend (1997). “Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Nose”, p.24, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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