Colleagues Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Colleagues

Please enjoy these Colleagues Quotes from the wise, the romantic, and the famous of the past and present.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world,
but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade,
but to clarify.
- Leo Szilard

I am delighted to have had students,
friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have
learned so much of what I know from them.
This Nobel Award honours them all.
- John Pople

I am sure that every one of my colleagues -
Democrat,
Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement.
That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
- Barbara Boxer

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual
but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made
possible the results you have cited.
- Willard Libby

I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do
my job it'll even see the light of air,
if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.
- Christiane Amanpour

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues,
but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture.
They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
- Pat Roberts

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I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
- Frederick Sanger

We have to change course.
And we have to do so now.
That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington
to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I listen to all kinds of music - new music,
old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
- Gyorgy Ligeti

The U.S.
Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth.
Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it.
I don't.
- Byron Dorgan

Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly.
Friends and colleagues are very sustaining.
They're the people who get you through it...
It's no good to be on your own.
- Judi Dench

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than
my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
- Felix Bloch

We've lost sight of our role in the region and our
view of our colleagues in the region.
- John Hewson

The visible things that have come from the group have
been the Plan 9 system and Inferno,
but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
- Dennis Ritchie

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend
precious time and energy defending or explaining my past.
We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
- Van Jones

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk,
stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along.
When in doubt, route.
- Malcolm Forbes

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues
believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
- Conrad Hall

So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen
is not as far away as we think it is.
- Bob Inglis

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.
- James Tobin

I was the only person of color in the Senate,
and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond,
Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
- Carol Moseley Braun

I voted no on the resolution to give the president
authority to go to war against Iraq.
I was able to apply caveat emptor.
Most of my colleagues could not.
- Bob Graham

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not
talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
- Robert Greenleaf

In the past, two colleagues died each season.
It was generally accepted this could happen.
- Jacky Ickx

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the
experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
- Daniel Day-Lewis

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska
Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too,
because we are working together as scientists.
- Lennart Nilsson

One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory -
with students and colleagues,
doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens!
It is overwhelming.
- Haldan Keffer Hartline

My attitude toward graduate students was different,
I must say.
I used graduate students as colleagues:
I gave them the best problems to work on,
and I encouraged them.
- Frank Press

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability
to articulate our conservative message and to provide
new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.
- Philip E. Berger

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues,
some of whom are close friends.
- Daniel Nathans

I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any
efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge
my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.
- Lois Capps

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy.
We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
- David Geffen

Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time
and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure
was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.
- Len G. Murray

I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me,
that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug,
and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
- Dana Rohrabacher

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great.
The public attention is a mixed blessing.
- Joshua Lederberg

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year,
they would tell that gun control was one of the major
contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
- John Dingell

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues.
I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
- David Attenborough

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life.
Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe,
tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
- George Voinovich

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it
also honors the field of research in which I have worked
and it also honors my students and colleagues.
- Robert Hofstadter

Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
- Hanoi Hannah

I absolutely intend to return every penny given to
me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.
- Rodney Alexander

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war,
in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues
and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.
- Jan Schakowsky

The world's a small place and people are watching;
and,
you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know,
and so eventually, these things do get out.
- Jane Mayer

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it.
They stayed on too long - napping through committee
hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
- Leverett Saltonstall

And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver;
it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time.
It is the only way you can survive.
- Margaret J. Wheatley

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if
we put four +'s in one gene.
To answer this my colleagues have recently put together
not merely four but six +'s.
- Francis Crick

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time,
especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar,
and difficult to appreciate.
- Peter D. Mitchell

Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is
important for my constituents,
for our region and for the entire nation.
I trust that, when they examine the facts about it,
every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.
- Robert Brady

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have
put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table.
The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large
and diverse but we share many common goals including
cutting wasteful spending,
getting our economy back on track and making government
smarter and more efficient.
- Kristi Noem

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are
very well-known for their television presentation,
but they wouldn't know new information or how to report
a story if it came up and bit them.
- Bob Woodward

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness.
If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas,
we could make a difference.
But now, I sincerely doubt that.
- Margaret J. Wheatley

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs,
that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues,
saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
- Kamal Ahmed

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts
to protect the homeland if we do not take additional
steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves
against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.
- David E. Price

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working
with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it
illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird
and illegal dog fighting.
- Earl Blumenauer

I can only point out a curious fact.
Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of
happiness not only to the recipients,
not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients,
but even to strangers.
- Alfred Day Hershey

We will ensure that associates continue to possess
unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication
to customer service and respect for their colleagues
and for the communities in which they work and live.
- Arthur Blank

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important,
common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit
the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal
injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
- Bob Ney

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues
inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their
own personal knowledge of national,
regional, religious, ethnic, occupational,
and family folklore traditions.
- Alan Dundes

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down.
George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues
than any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president.
- John Boehner

And at the same time, you are of course a performer,
but it's very important that you understand that your
role as a performer is to get the best performance
from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.
- Michael Tilson Thomas

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular,
really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business.
Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in
you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.
- Sharon Stone

Well, the whole story is in the book,
but the short answer is that I was the first information
architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented,
and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust
and support of my colleagues.
- Jesse James Garrett

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House,
whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama.
And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President
Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues
who hate to vote for them,
but love to get them.
- Harry Reid

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted
four years in opposition,
but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you
do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
- Kenneth Clarke

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed
as I am that the United States is forced to borrow
over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our
national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf
coast and the war in Iraq.
- Dennis Cardoza

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions.
Not one thing will stand out.
And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues
and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
- Rahm Emanuel

If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues
on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain
the focus on long-term price stability as monetary
policy's greatest contribution to general economic
prosperity and maximum employment.
- Ben Bernanke

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them,
my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure
to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will
undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves
say we have built in Iraq.
- Kit Bond

I continue to vote against such spending increases,
but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues
forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government,
not to grow it.
- Jeff Miller

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands,
and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small,
informal, international fraternity.
- Murray Gell-Mann

Over this August district work period,
like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with
the men and women in uniform from my home State.
The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
- Zach Wamp

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