Administrative Quotes

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.
Scott Adams

Try, Creativity, Stuff

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

End, Political, Democracy

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov

Nature, War, Hard

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
Eliot Spitzer

Change, Good, Power

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow

Business, America, American

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley

Society, Fire, Able

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
Jimmy Wales

Good, Real, Company

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.
John Hume

Father, Almost, Worked

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.
Jurgen Habermas

Through, Nation, Situation

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.
John Hutton

Government, Business, Here

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
Michael K. Simpson

Past, Decisions, Reason

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.
Charles Hodge

Power, Everything, Done

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
Charles Hodge

Government, Society, State

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
Harold H. Greene

Work, Learning, Fun

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
Robert M. Hutchins

Sex, Problems, Three

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Joseph Priestley

Society, Fire, Able

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
John Cameron

Work, Time, Medical

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
Jules Shear

Through, Try, Once

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh

Justice, Through, Somebody

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.
Richard Ernst

Work, Time, Become

I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.
Ahmed Chalabi

Best, Strong, Based

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.
Roone Arledge

Creative, Top, Doers

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
Clark Kerr

Sex, Find, Problems

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
Grace Abbott

Government, Moving, Congress

The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.
Montel Williams

Country, Why, Rich

We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
John Bates Clark

Business, Doubt, Through

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
James Q. Wilson

System, Red, Extricate

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
John Burns

Work, Men, Courage

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.
Akhmad Kadyrov

Work, Stand, State

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
James W. Black

Home, Political, Others

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