#assistant

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. ↗

— Terri Windling

#because #being #best #editor #editorial

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants. ↗

— John Wooden

#careful #coach #extremely #i #selecting

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House. ↗

— Betty Hill

#contacted #eisenhower #first #house #person

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#been #before #experience #i #integrity

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#am #assistants #ever #far #his

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#comments #does #eight #everything #full-time

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party. ↗

— Robert Caro

#believed #could #everyone #four #his

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#become #colleges #doomsday #expert #lab

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#already #assistants #camera #enough #i

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

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