Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.
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I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
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Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
Acronyms
A-nnoying professional documents
C-onstantly contain meager puns.
R-idiculous features of ill humor semantics
O-bfuscating the contents with asinine
N-ouns propositioned in stupid arrangements
Y-et satisfy know one but dull bureaucrats
M-anagment types who build programs with
S-tupidly unfunny acronyms
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I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.
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By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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Through invention, through imagination, through fabrication, I become more truthful than the little bureaucrats.
quote by Werner Herzog
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.
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Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
quote by Richard M. Nixon
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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
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I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
quote by Barbara Boxer
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Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
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The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
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