Directorial Leadership Quotes & Sayings

For gold the merchant ploughs the main,
The farmer ploughs the manor. — Robert Burns

The makers of '21 and Over' have been screening it, and I'm getting a lot of comparisons to a young Vince Vaughn. — Miles Teller

If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Creativity should include everything that makes one feel alive. — Marty Rubin

You know, one of these days, I'm actually going to take offense if people keep throwing out these slurs. And then things are going to get rather ugly. When we Skandians do take offense, we do it with a battleax. — John Flanagan

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority. — Samuel Johnson

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it. — Will Rogers

What can I say about Trenton? A sad sprout of a human being, halfway between a boy and a broccoli. — Lauren Oliver

You may be gifted, but you have the maturity of 5 year olds. — Paula Pearce

For all the talk about the need to be a likable "team player," many people work in a fairly cutthroat environment that would seem to be especially challenging to those who possess the recommended traits. Cheerfulness, upbeatness, and compliance: these are the qualities of subordinates
of servants rather than masters, women (traditionally, anyway) rather than men. After advising his readers to overcome the bitterness and negativity engendered by frequent job loss and to achieve a perpetually sunny outlook, management guru Harvey Mackay notes cryptically that "the nicest, most loyal, and most submissive employees are often the easiest people to fire." Given the turmoil in the corporate world, the prescriptions of niceness ring of lambs-to-the-slaughter. — Barbara Ehrenreich

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved. — Honor Blackman