If at first you don't succeed, try management. — Stephen Hawking
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't. — Anthea Turner
Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once. — Helena Bonham Carter
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility. — King Edward VIII
What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. — Strother Martin
The one that embraces a lot cannot keep it together — Spanish Proverbs
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. — General Robert E. Lee
Can’t be starting all these problems if you cannot solve them. — Cardi B
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. — Henry Ford
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed. — James C. Collins
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else. — Zig Ziglar
If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading. — Mark Gonzales
Short Couldn't Manage Quotes
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. — Peter Drucker
A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved. — Indian Proverbs
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. — Michel de Montaigne
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. — Lao Tzu
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. — Lao Tzu
They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. — Scottish Proverbs
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. — Brian Clough
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. — Warren G. Bennis
You simply can’t effectively focus on 2 important things at once. — Gary Keller
Couldn't Manage Image Quotes
They told me I couldn't. Thats why I did.
Can't Handle Quotes
Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing — Eddy Merckx
I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time. — Chris Evans
He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse. — Stephenie Meyer
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle! — Sanya Richards-Ross
So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking. — Maurice Gibb
Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything. — Ken Jeong
Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things.
I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead
My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you. — Elise Broach
Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. — Terry Pratchett
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me! — Fats Waller
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement. — Otto Schily
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man;
But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
I never made a mistake in my life;
At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards — Rudyard Kipling
You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans? — Richelle Mead
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
I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later. — Stephin Merritt
Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you. — Alan Shearer
I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it. — Glenn Ford
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering. — David Bowie
It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell. — William Shatner
I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that. — Virat Kohli
Our proposal had more than just money. We would increase their staff and keep their headquarters, their brand and their management in place. We made them a comprehensive offer they couldn't refuse. Shareholders simply receive cash, but with the staff and management, we had to show that we could share the same vision. Employees would probably resent us if money were all [we offered]. — Masayoshi Son
An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks. — Warren Buffett
In terms of driving, I actually don't have a driver's license, and it's kind of ridiculous. I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and just have somehow managed to avoid taking the test, which I did last week and failed. I couldn't find the honker. I felt bad about it, but it's just a little bit embarrassing, I guess, to be in this film and not have a license. — Imogen Poots
I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable. — Philip K. Dick
Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say? — Berti Vogts
I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking. — Martin O'Neill
We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar. — Joe Royle
After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him. — James Berardinelli
My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager. — Tanya Tucker
I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor. — William Shatner
What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over. — Randall Munroe
I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day. — Ninni Holmqvist
If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable. — Graham Joyce
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing. — Octavia Butler
When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites. — Christopher Dodd
I just -- I know my own heart and I love you, Turner. And if you have even the tiniest shred of decency, you'll say something because I've said everything I possibly can, and I can't bear the silence, and -- oh for heaven's sake! Will you at least blink?" He couldn't even manage that. — Julia Quinn
If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point. — Ann Aguirre
No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself? — Marian Keyes
I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again. — Patrick Rothfuss
Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more. — Anna Godbersen
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. — Jodi Picoult
Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade. — Julia Quinn
That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal. — Janet Fitch
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