#manager

There are no managers like there used to be managers. ↗

— Richard Manuel

#managers #used

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#assistant #canterbury #changed #enough #get

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#become #bubble #child #controlling #innocence

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#because #client #could #family #get

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#better #greatest #knack #making #manager

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#described #downward #had #i #manager

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#add #capacities #downsize #fire #hire

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#managers #oh #problem #relationship #sometimes

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#fight #get #makes #manager #managers

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies. ↗

— Ben E. King

#buddies #come #coordinator #dad #guess