Duane G. Carey Quotes

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

In a disaster you have to have speed. In order to have speed, you have to have trust. And in order to have trust, you have to have people organized and planning before the disaster.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

It's always good to be out there with your teammates, working with your teammates in individual drills, team drills, just being out there, getting on the same page, just getting into flow with them.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

The quarterback-receiver connection is a constant work in progress. You're always working on your communication on the field, off the field.

All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.