Skeet Ulrich Quotes

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

I'll never forget Cricket Australia telling me I was too soft and I'd been too soft with the team... I kind of didn't know what they wanted.

I will reach out to others and explain why I make the decisions I make.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.

There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.