"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

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"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

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"Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature."

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Management, Conflict, Leadership, Art

"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."

Isaiah Thomas, American Athlete

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"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team."

Gerard Arpey, American Businessman

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"The best leaders don't give a damn about the definition of leadership, they are thinking about more important things."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

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"Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries."

Al Lopez, American Coach

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"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."

W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist

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"The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'"

Tom Coburn, American Politician

Management, Eye, May, Needs

"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."

Solomon Burke, American Musician

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"It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager."

Frank Robinson, American Athlete

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"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."

Neil Tennant, English Musician

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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."

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"Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them."

People

"People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not."

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"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

Failure

"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."

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"The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs."

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"I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer."

Love

"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."

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"Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?"

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"I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky."

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