Top 295 Operate Quotes

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it’s money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.
Kevin Mitnick
Drugs shift the way that we think. So, yeah, the logical thing would be to get help, but that’s not the way addicts operate, which is why it’s really, really hard to get someone to understand that they need treatment.
David Sheff
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.
Leonard Mlodinow
I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
Ferdinand Marcos
The U.N.’s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
Ban Ki-moon
I operate on the assumption that as a member of Congress, presently, I represent everybody – Republicans, Democrats, independents and, yes, some people who don’t care to participate.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the re

It’s a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.
Rocco DiSpirito
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Maybe it’s the spy novelist in me looking for a future plot, but I hope the U.S. and its allies are thinking how to operate ‘unconventionally’ in Iraq and Syria in ways that undermine the Islamic State.
David Ignatius
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
Ratan Tata
The major studios don’t differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.
Douglas Wood
A major loss by a Democratic prosecutor at the hands of the BLM movement could alter the political landscape in a way that might actually change the way prosecutors, and ultimately police departments, operate.
Joy Reid
If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.
Dolph Ziggler
With Bayern, we want a lot of ball possession and to control the play, so I operate sometimes like the 11th outfield player. Thus I am included a lot into the build-up play and have a lot of touches of the ball.
Manuel Neuer
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he’s compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, ‘You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.’
Elaine Sciolino
Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.
Brianna Wu
What I’m trying to do is teach people how to actually get individuals in organizations to do the kinds of things to make a difference. It starts with not just studying the mechanics but really understanding how people operate.
Stanley A. McChrystal
It was impossible to operate in the aluminium business without krysha – very real physical protection.
Roman Abramovich
President Putin and the Russian security services operate like a super PAC. They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.
Fiona Hill
I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.
Caroline Ghosn
The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can’t villainize the character you’re playing. Whether it’s a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can’t humanize him.
Corey Hawkins
At my house, I can operate pretty much everything from my phone. I can be anywhere in the world and adjust the temperature, check my security cameras and talk to people in the house. I can even turn on the TVs.
Drew Scott
We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.
Wendy Kopp
I don’t personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn’t having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.
Lev Yilmaz
I could not pass up the opportunity to build and operate a casino next door to my hometown. This casino will be where Louisiana locals and Texans will want to play, stay, and enjoy themselves.
Tilman J. Fertitta
In New York, we’re always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.
David Chang
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
Cofer Black
If you believe in democracy, you accept, by definition, the existence and triumph of opposing ideas. The people who believe deeply in the Internet’s force as a commons operate on that kind of premise.
Ari Melber
I can operate in half-a-song format.
Frank Ocean
Humor is a huge part of the way I operate; if people can’t understand a joke then they should not follow me.
Shibani Dandekar
In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.
Clayton M. Christensen
I had a rule – I didn’t have a lot of rules – and one of them was we’re going to operate from a mutual respect. I won’t embarrass you, and I don’t expect you to be embarrass me.
Mike Holmgren
I believe we must go further in redefining what United’s corporate citizenship looks like in our society… and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.
Oscar Munoz
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter
Obviously I’ve got a great team of people within the company. You can’t operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I’m not around.
Roger Penske
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.
Sam Mendes
I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, b

I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you’re supposed to be social.
Temple Grandin
Here’s how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don’t even see me coming.
Ron White
I suppose technically I could say I’m based in jazz, just because it’s the school of thought that I’ve been encouraging myself to operate within.
Jacob Collier
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is vital for officials and regulators to have input from people within our businesses who understand the intricacies of how financial markets operate and the consequences of certain policy decisions.
Jamie Dimon
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn’t operate in this region. It’s difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
Nicholas Kristof
You cannot operate independently when you have a lifetime partnership and commitment with someone.
Kenya Moore
I named myself Flash many years ago, as I loved the cartoon. Then my own fans said that I should call myself ‘Grandmaster,’ because of the way I operate turntables. I put the two together and that was it.
Grandmaster Flash
I operated a professional football team in L.A. By no means was it the NFL, but I understand what it takes on some level to build and operate a professional sports enterprise in Los Angeles.
Casey Wasserman
I can operate on both flanks.
Douglas Costa
We’ll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We’re going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that’s the future of leadership.
John T. Chambers
I’ve always found that once you’re in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
Nancy Gibbs
You’re out there on a high wire without a net, and that’s the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
Charles Durning
You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It’s just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.
Mike Lee