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Colleague Quotes

These colleague quotes celebrate the coworkers, mentors, and professional companions who shape a career, from newsroom partnerships to the quiet support of an agent or academic colleague.

A good colleague can shape an entire career, whether in science, journalism, or publishing. This page collects quotes about colleagues who have offered guidance in Government, academia, and the newsroom.

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And...

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised...

Quotes by Wolfgang Paul

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.

Quotes by Torsten Wiesel

My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

Quotes by Tea Obreht

Experience Quotes

My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

Quotes by Simon Hoggart

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the...

Quotes by Sendhil Mullainathan

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.

Quotes by Michael Gove

I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was a natural moment to think about whether I wanted to stay longer, and I'm thrilled to turn the...

Quotes by Mary Schapiro

Mentorship is important for everybody, but it can come in a variety of forms. It can come from your boss or another colleague who may be more of a peer, or someone who reports into you if they have a...

Quotes by Marne Levine

Father Quotes

It's a totally different spiel when I talk at Morehouse. But when I'm talking at MIT? At the University of Cincinnati? I'm telling white people, in order to stop systemic racism, you must first befriend, become a colleague of, get...

Quotes by Killer Mike

I actually interned at NBC News with my wonderful colleague Mark Murray in the political unit back in 2005.

Quotes by Kasie Hunt

Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free.

Quotes by Jim Crace

The first conversation I ever had about the Internet was in 1993 with Robert Wright, who was then a colleague at the 'New Republic.'

Quotes by Jacob Weisberg

I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

Quotes by Jack Dangermond

Good Quotes

When I think of the moment I knew that my marriage to Josiah would end, there were a few moments before I really, really knew. I probably knew, when I saw my ex-husband and his now wife - then colleague...

Quotes by Isabel Gillies

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying...

Quotes by Hans Blix

When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the...

Quotes by Edith Widder

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written...

Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

Government Quotes

I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in...

Quotes by Donna Brazile

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of colleague relationships appear in these quotes?
A good mix - a physicist recalling the mentorship of Arnold Sommerfeld after years of study, a broadcaster crediting a colleague at NBC News, and a writer whose colleague connected them to their literary agent.
Is there a quote about admiring a colleague's courage?
Yes - one speaker calls a colleague their greatest symbol of human resistance and courage, describing them as a Nobel laureate they worked alongside.
Do any of these quotes mention how a career path started through a colleague?
One does - a writer describes how their road to publishing actually began through a colleague who connected them to an agent, with supportive faculty helping along the way.
What does the physicist's quote say about becoming a colleague in their field?
It traces an academic path - years of Latin, ancient Greek, history, and philosophy at a gymnasium in Munich before deciding to become a physicist and eventually working alongside greats like Arnold Sommerfeld.
Which related topic pairs well with quotes about colleagues and career?
The Experience collection touches on similar ground, since many of these colleague stories are really about formative professional experience.

For related reading, see our Experience and Father collections, which touch on mentorship and professional growth.