Abstraction Quote by Marshall McLuhan

“The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.”

— Frank Herbert

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and…

— Roone Arledge

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

“Everyone’s the lead in their own story, Administrator. Some roles are bigger, some smaller, but none are more important, understand?”

— wildbow

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw,…

— Ambrose Bierce

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can…

— Herbert Simon

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get…

— Robert Townsend

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

— Anonymous

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

— Honore Gabriel Riquet

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may…

— Abraham Lincoln

A bureaucracy is like a living creature, with instincts of self-preservation and an urge to control all things for its own protection.

— Gordon R Dickson