“I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do makes it a lot easier to work, every day, to face the tough spots and heel in for the long haul. Nothing against plans; they work for some people. But for me, if I'd been planning, worrying about numbers, trying to micro-manage my career, I wouldn't have focused on the writing. If you don't write, you're not read. If you're not read, you don't sell. So that's my Master Plan, I guess. Write the books, let the agent agent, the editor edit, the publisher publish.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingLongBookFacesNumbersCareersWorryPlansMastersEasierToughSellsFocusedPlanningManageSpotsAgentsEditorsHeelsPublishersPublishEditsHaulLong HaulLoving What You Do Author:Nora Roberts
“My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.” IfsTryingPersonsMomentsLastsFatherNamesMistakeReadyToughManageThat MomentMentorMarvelous Author:Brian Roberts
“A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.” SportsCareersSupportImpossibleToughManageGuidanceFamily And FriendsTough TimesReassurance Author:Rahul Dravid
“After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.” YearsToughManageYankeesSomewhere ElseDodgers Author:Joe Torre
“I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.” ThinkingKnowsMayShowsDesireHateStageToughI HateManageSomedayRetiring Author:Hal Holbrook
“I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.” ThinkingWayGivenToughManageAdmirable Author:Jo Brand
“We are pretty tough in saying for example if you've got unsecured debts and less than £25,000 that should not be an excuse for repossessing someone's home.That should not be allowed.You have got to help manage people through this process. I don't want to pretend that it is going to be easy getting out of Gordon Brown's hole.” PeopleIfsWantShouldHelpingHomeEasyProcessExampleToughExcuseDebtHolesManageBrown Author:George Osborne
“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.” ChildrenTwoHomeBlackFeminismToughFeministManageBlack Women Author:Toni Morrison
“I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingMindHeartI CanFunnyInterestPoorSituationToughDeeperManageMy WaySocialistDeeper MeaningTough Situations Author:Lalu Prasad Yadav