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- Nov 07, 2020
Colleague Quotes
These colleague quotes celebrate the coworkers, mentors, and professional companions who shape a career, from newsroom partnerships to the quiet support of an agent or academic colleague.
A good colleague can shape an entire career, whether in science, journalism, or publishing. This page collects quotes about colleagues who have offered guidance in Government, academia, and the newsroom.
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was a natural moment to think about whether I wanted to stay longer, and I'm thrilled to turn the reins over to my longtime colleague Elisse Walter.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mentorship is important for everybody, but it can come in a variety of forms. It can come from your boss or another colleague who may be more of a peer, or someone who reports into you if they have a lot of experience or creative experience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a totally different spiel when I talk at Morehouse. But when I'm talking at MIT? At the University of Cincinnati? I'm telling white people, in order to stop systemic racism, you must first befriend, become a colleague of, get to know intimately, put yourself culturally in the framework of someone who doesn't look like you.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually interned at NBC News with my wonderful colleague Mark Murray in the political unit back in 2005.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
- Diverted
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020