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- Nov 07, 2020
Arranging Quotes
Putting the pieces where they belong.
These arranging quotes contrast management's focus on arranging and telling with leadership's focus on nurturing people. See our Being quotes for related reflections.
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- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
- Mathematical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
- Knack
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
- Knack
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the wild, passionate creative temperament.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.
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- Nov 07, 2020
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
- Conducting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020