Alan Townsend quote: "Feeling irritated or angry with colleagues is one of the most common symptoms of stress. It's important to keep things in perspective. Enjoy the challenges of your job, but don't let them dominate your life."

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ALAN TOWNSEND

Monster findings suggest that workplace relationships are commonplace these days. Some workplaces ma...
ALAN TOWNSEND

Whatever code of conduct they choose, the importance of ensuring an office romance doesn't cause con...
ALAN TOWNSEND

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot o...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
ED TOWNSEND

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
ED TOWNSEND

Democracy is not about one party dominating.
ED TOWNSEND

In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when i...
ED TOWNSEND

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profi...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be p...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a proble...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with th...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of h...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
PETER TOWNSEND

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t...
PETER TOWNSEND

So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
PETER TOWNSEND

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of h...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.
SUE TOWNSEND

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love...
SUE TOWNSEND

They need to see the court better on offense. They could also work on playing together better.
ALICIA TOWNSEND

Since we didn't have a tournament this year, that game was like our tournament. The girls were excit...
ALICIA TOWNSEND

This group's strength was the ability to improve. They continuously learned and got better.
ALICIA TOWNSEND

They lost to the eighth-grade boys. They played that game some afternoon for a little fun.
ALICIA TOWNSEND

They're probably not spending enough.
BRIAN TOWNSEND

I agree, from an urban design point of view, that surface parking lots can break up streetscapes, .....
BRIAN TOWNSEND

It will be interesting to see how it plays out,
BRIAN TOWNSEND

Our real goal is to really make our city where people choose to live, regardless of their demographi...
BRIAN TOWNSEND

Swimming is individual-oriented. We encourage all swimmers to go for their personal best as opposed ...
BRIAN TOWNSEND

When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?'...
SUE TOWNSEND

I am the world's worst diabetic.
SUE TOWNSEND

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
MARCHIONESS TOWNSEND

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the ...
TOWNSEND WHELEN

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
SUE TOWNSEND

We're happy to pass on this decrease to our customers.
ANGIE TOWNSEND

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses danc...
SUE TOWNSEND

To suggest, however, that Pocahontas worshipped the white man, abandoned her people, or loved John S...
CAMILLA TOWNSEND

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ...
SUE TOWNSEND

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told tha...
TOWNSEND HARRIS

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have g...
SUE TOWNSEND

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with oth...
TOWNSEND HARRIS

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this ...
TOWNSEND HARRIS

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed,...
TOWNSEND HARRIS

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.
SUE TOWNSEND

I flipped open my Nextel, went to Shane's number, dialed it, and Shane said, 'Hello?'
TAMMY TOWNSEND

We still expect our customers to resume buying fertilizer for the spring planting.
DAVID TOWNSEND

We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it...
FRANCES TOWNSEND

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things li...
SUE TOWNSEND

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always ge...
SUE TOWNSEND

Emotions, or feelings, have a function. They tell us something. They are a signal....Anger tells us ...
JOHN TOWNSEND

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is...
SUE TOWNSEND

It will probably be a bit noisier up there, then.
ANDY TOWNSEND

That would be a $174 versus a $153 bill. That's a savings of about $21, and every little bit helps t...
ANGIE TOWNSEND

Wholesale prices for natural gas have been declining ever since December, so we're glad to pass thos...
ANGIE TOWNSEND

I haven't the faintest idea.
VIRGINIA TOWNSEND

We didn't have any problems getting guys on and off the field the last time we played them. That was...
DESHEA TOWNSEND

I felt fine (Wednesday), ... I actually told (trainer John) Norwig, 'Don't count me out.' I felt lik...
DESHEA TOWNSEND

Clark does some unbelievable things.
DESHEA TOWNSEND

We always want to be on the field. It is another opportunity for us to make a play. We had that oppo...
DESHEA TOWNSEND

That's the game I remember best, the game he was supposed to have been hurt.
DESHEA TOWNSEND

Being that I'm also from Mississippi, I've always been a big Steve McNair fan. He's such a great pas...
DESHEA TOWNSEND

We thought we did ourselves a favor by knocking O'Donnell out of the game,
DESHEA TOWNSEND

She was not the hapless Monica Lewinsky of her time. She was a James Carville.
CAMILLA TOWNSEND

It is a rarity for a student to make all-state ensembles all four years of high school, but it looks...
CHRIS TOWNSEND

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handb...
SUE TOWNSEND

We literally stopped at 25 or more hotels and motels on the way up and couldn't find one room, ... W...
TAMMY TOWNSEND

We got out of New Orleans about 9:30 Saturday morning on a wing and a prayer. We had no plans other ...
TAMMY TOWNSEND

You're standing on hallowed ground here. Sometimes hallowed ground is very expensive ground.
JOHN TOWNSEND

If people are coming to work excited...if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly...if they're...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his peop...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

If asked when you can deliver something, ask for time to think. Build in a margin of safety. Name a ...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

They know they're very good issues to be fighting for. They all feel good about it.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

These are stretch targets - they are not easy for us.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Most people in big companies are administered, not led. They are treated as personnel, not people.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to loo...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

Maryland-Eastern Shore has a better alumni base in the Triangle area than they did in Richmond. Virg...
NELSON TOWNSEND

When we moved, we knew this was here, ... If we had a preference, we’d prefer it didn’t be here,...
ED TOWNSEND

When we moved, we knew this was here. If we had a preference, we'd prefer it didn't be here, but it ...
ED TOWNSEND

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profi...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

The annual auction is the only fundraiser we have. Graduates selected for the scholarships can use t...
SCOTT TOWNSEND

Ike is a great corner. He can watch anybody.
DESHEA TOWNSEND

Ike might be following him around.
DESHEA TOWNSEND

Flooded vehicles are sometimes cleaned up by unscrupulous sellers without disclosure of flood damage...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

It's going to be a horror movie, and it's going to be scary. I don't want to pretend in any way that...
JOSH TOWNSEND

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it wi...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live with...
IRVING TOWNSEND

If it were that simple, it would have been easier. There were numerous reports about the levees. Mos...
FRANCES TOWNSEND

Yes, we saw the tape of the Chargers-Colts game. I don't know if we learned anything from the tape t...
DESHEA TOWNSEND

It's a headache and there's no aspirin in the cupboard, ... This one is not going to go away.
PETER TOWNSEND

We're giving talented people the opportunity to work closely with the real innovators in the in-game...
JUSTIN TOWNSEND

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong ...
ROBERT TOWNSEND

I'm not surprised, because the manufacturing sector in our community is really feeling the pain and ...
PETER TOWNSEND

We had reached the end of the road, ... Our feelings for one another were unchanged but they had inc...
PETER TOWNSEND

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England ...
TOWNSEND HARRIS

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
TOWNSEND HARRIS

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.
SUE TOWNSEND

PATH line rail schedules have nothing to do with toll-crossing charges.
TIFFANY TOWNSEND

There are four clear development communities. For those who use the Java stack, we provide all the J...
MARK TOWNSEND

He didn't care anything about himself. He wanted to make sure the coaches were OK. That's the kind o...
KURTIS TOWNSEND

Pocahontas' wedding was definitely a well-thought political move on her part, something she did for ...
CAMILLA TOWNSEND

The Super Bowl honeymoon is only going to last so long.
JIM TOWNSEND

I'll be out there,
DESHEA TOWNSEND

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japa...
TOWNSEND HARRIS

B-Mac made two big plays at the end.
DESHEA TOWNSEND

People down on their luck deserve the best: beautiful surroundings and well-paid professional staff ...
SUE TOWNSEND

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
SUE TOWNSEND

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is ...
TOWNSEND HARRIS

I think that was intended to send a signal that academics and academic integrity would play a big pa...
DAVE TOWNSEND

The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distract...
SUE TOWNSEND

I haven't presumed that there needs to be a revision of the Stafford or Insurrection Act,
FRANCES TOWNSEND

It turned out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, ... The thing that changed this ...
FRANCES TOWNSEND

the official primarily responsible for advising and assisting the President in the coordination of d...
FRANCES TOWNSEND

It turns out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated,
FRANCES TOWNSEND

We must be unanimous in our strong condemnation of such state sponsorship of terrorism and demand it...
FRANCES TOWNSEND

When the civilized world demonstrated its determination, the Libyan government correctly judged its ...
FRANCES TOWNSEND

Probably 70 percent of hands went up, ... And people were really stunned that there is nowhere in th...
FRANCES TOWNSEND

divorce this from partisan politics.
FRANCES TOWNSEND

equally important that we not permit this valuable tool to be caught up in unnecessary rhetoric.
FRANCES TOWNSEND

As we're heading into this hurricane season, now is not the time to really look at moving organizati...
FRAN TOWNSEND

Yes there's a better way to organize it... we look forward to working with the committee. I think we...
FRAN TOWNSEND

As we're headed to this hurricane season, now is not really time to really look at moving organizati...
FRAN TOWNSEND

They have been critical allies in Afghanistan. They have been critical allies in fighting the financ...
FRAN TOWNSEND

When state and local responders are overwhelmed and incapacitated it may be that our military is the...
FRAN TOWNSEND

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and d...
FRAN TOWNSEND

You'll all recall that there was the arrest of the shoe bomber Richard Reid in December of 2001, and...
FRAN TOWNSEND

We currently have no evidence that a pandemic flu in this country is imminent. That said, we are fai...
FRAN TOWNSEND

Quite frankly, I think we did quite well.
FRAN TOWNSEND

There were persuasive and strong arguments made against doing that.
FRAN TOWNSEND

There is a lot of concern since this is the Labor Day weekend - it's the last chance to get away. Pe...
GARRETT TOWNSEND

People are on the edge. They just want to be reassured there's going to be gas wherever they're goin...
GARRETT TOWNSEND

How high it's going to go is anybody's guess. It depends on how long those refineries are out of com...
GARRETT TOWNSEND

When we moved, we knew this was here, ... If we had a preference, wed prefer it didnt be here, b...
ED TOWNSEND

We now have a three-way split in this constituency, which is a much fairer reflection of people's vi...
ED TOWNSEND

We wanted to tell these stories ... and give people a quick way to read about black history. Hopeful...
JAMES TOWNSEND

Our main interest, in translating applied sciences market research into a form useful to investors, ...
JAMES TOWNSEND

We blues singers are condemned. But I let them know this: If what I'm singing sends me to hell, I do...
HENRY TOWNSEND

If somebody sings, 'Baby I'll fly to the moon for you, I'll bring the stars down,' that's a damn lie...
HENRY TOWNSEND

It's been good to me, and I had no desire to change. It's been lower than the dirt on the ground, bu...
HENRY TOWNSEND

I hate to see him die that way. It didn't have to happen that way.
HENRY TOWNSEND

I think (his father) was his reason for going after the music. When he was younger, he was going aft...
HENRY TOWNSEND

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me
IRVING TOWNSEND

Well, it sure worked with heroin and cocaine. We don't have any problems with those drugs anymore.
MARK TOWNSEND

I know that they think they've done a very good job, and all kudos to them. But they're still only j...
MARK TOWNSEND

We also want to get more benches and tables. It's a nice place to come to just sit and relax and rea...
MARCIA TOWNSEND

It's been a challenge at times. For the past couple of months, we've had to do a lot of hand waterin...
MARCIA TOWNSEND

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.
MARCIA TOWNSEND

If I get 50, I think we will be in great shape.
MALCOLM TOWNSEND

That was the play of the night for them.
MALCOLM TOWNSEND

He is one of the most special kids I've been around in 15 years of coaching college. I don't know if...
KURTIS TOWNSEND

His phone message box was full.
KURTIS TOWNSEND

As a breakout business, we are creating a workable vision with a value proposition that is clear and...
JUSTIN TOWNSEND

Our vision for helping advertisers to capture the extremely rich branding opportunities that in game...
JUSTIN TOWNSEND

It's great to achieve recognition from our peers in the advertising arena affirming our impressive i...
JUSTIN TOWNSEND

That's very close on the horizon. Our next software release will actually allow us to place TV spots...
JUSTIN TOWNSEND

I know they're not going to be happy we're making a movie, no matter what.
JOSH TOWNSEND

We got started right after the Christmas season.
JENNIFER TOWNSEND

When you walk up to the front of our store, it's like walking into Wonderland. This will create a un...
JENNIFER TOWNSEND

It's been a very trying morning.
JENNIFER TOWNSEND

The attorneys' fees have been astronomical.
MICHAEL TOWNSEND

We have carried out a review of costs and a review of structure and we believe the new arrangement i...
PHIL TOWNSEND

This is the first time we've had this type of occurrence. There just had been no prior experience.
DAVID TOWNSEND

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to s...
ATWOOD H. TOWNSEND

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world...
ATWOOD H. TOWNSEND

Inflation is the senility of democracies.
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

The dogma right now is it is the waterfowl _ ducks, sandpipers, gulls, plovers _ essentially any bir...
A. TOWNSEND PETERSON

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree,...
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

I think everybody has said that the category is in a slump. I don't see that the category has partic...
CHARLES H. TOWNSEND

She has always been perfectly shameless about reading letters not meant for her, and, as she said, s...
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

The fatal law of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

Inflation is the senility of democracies
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

This was a difficult decision. Although initial readership and advertising response were encouraging...
CHARLES H. TOWNSEND

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

Even at the last minute, the state of Mississippi had put together something that was just completel...
PAT TOWNSEND JR

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Feeling irritated or angry with colleagues is one of the most common symptoms of stress. It's important to keep things in perspective. Enjoy the challenges of your job, but don't let them dominate your life.

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Feeling irritated or angry with colleagues is one of the most common symptoms of stress. It's important to keep things in perspective. Enjoy the challenges of your job, but don't let them dominate your life.

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