Team Management Quotes

Expression is the truth, impression is a lie. ~ Krishna Sagar

However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season. ~ Michael Delaware

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. ~ Fred Wilson

Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well. ~ Marissa Mayer

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com. ~ Ram Shriram

You are either supporting the vision or supporting division ~ Saji Ijiyemi

McAfee's No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management. ~ Renee James

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome. ~ Walter Smith

At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them. ~ Andrew Oliver

One asset every leader, shouldn't risk anything to lose at all cost, is team confidence. ~ Unarine Ramaru

I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me. ~ Cobi Jones

The most powerful weapon in the world is, Question. ~ Krishna Sagar

I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that. ~ Jonny Wilkinson

Building up an organisation is like starting a social movement. At the center of everything is the core team. I have the honor of working with some phenomenal people at Purpose who are at the top of their fields. That energy and common purpose among the team is what inspires me and where the magic happens. ~ Jeremy Heimans

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team. ~ Leslie Moonves

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over. ~ Krysten Ritter

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together. ~ Marcus Miller

Management has authority only as long as it performs. ~ Peter Drucker

We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries. ~ Bill Shankly

The determination and enthusiasm of the Category 5 team makes it the perfect home for my music as I embark on this next stage of my career. The promotional savvy and level of support they've pledged meets or exceeds anything I've seen from the major labels I've been associated with. ~ Travis Tritt

Motivation itself generally lasts about two plays - it's highly overrated," he said. "Give me a team that has a business-like attitude, a team that can deal with adversity when it comes. ~ Monte Burke

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry. ~ Earl Campbell

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another. ~ Pasquier Quesnel

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games ... the losing team can only win one out of three. ~ Vin Scully

New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that. ~ Landon Donovan

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production. ~ Gavid Hood

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity. ~ Bryan Murray

I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team. ~ Paul Pierce

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities. ~ Sanford I. Weill

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times. ~ Bill Parcells

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone. ~ Doc Rivers

In the two weeks following the All-Star Game, baseball was largely upstaged by the events of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal, including Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's seven perfect 10.0 scores, Bruce Jenner's record-setting decathlon triumph, and the five gold medals won by U.S. boxers Howard Davis Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Leo Randolph, and brothers Leon and Michael Spinks - the mightiest performance of any American boxing team in Olympic history. ~ Dan Epstein

The quarterback is the leader of the team and the quarterback is the one that has the ball in his hands every single play. ~ Andy Dalton

The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked. ~ Michael Vick

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do. ~ Claudio Reyna

Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender. ~ Craig Ferguson

we as authors have been writing about people we aren't for forever. We find a way to empathise, we find a way in. Female characters are no different. All they are are characters. They are people too. Instead of asking yourself, "How do I write this female soldier?" ask yourself, "How do I write this soldier? Where is she from, how was she raised, does she have a sense of humour? Is she big and tall, is she short and petite? How does her size affect her ability to fight? What is her favourite weapon, her least favourite? Why? Is she more logical than emotional? The other way around? Was she an only child and spoiled, was she the eldest of six siblings and a surrogate mother? How does that upbringing affect how she interacts with her team? etc etc and so forth." Notice how the first question gets you some kind of broad, generalised answer, likely resulting in a stereotype, and how the second version asks lots and lots of smaller questions with the goal of creating someone well rounded.

One would hope, really, that we as authors ask such detailed questions of all our characters, regardless of gender.


So let me, at long last, actually answer the original question:

"How do I write a female character?"

Write her the way you would write any other character. Give her dimension, give her strength but please also don't forget to give her weaknesses (for a totally strong nothing can beat her kind of girl is not a person, she's again a ty ~ Adrienne Kress

[When asked how someone 6'3 had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf. ~ Carol Mann

Free your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Rick Perry, started out like a ball of fire from Texas and then he started to drop and now he's retooling. He's adding advisers to his campaign team. This guy had advisers? Really? ~ David Letterman

To know what to do with time is to convert a day ~ Sunday Adelaja

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. ~ Peter Drucker

I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa. ~ Claudio Reyna

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful. ~ Phil Jackson

Well they were going to have to do a whole lot better than this if they wanted us Creeds to feel bad. If they thought they could hurt me or dad just by messing with my head at a tryout and cutting me from the team they had another thing coming. If there is one thing we Creeds knew how to succeed at, it was failure. ~ Perry Moore