Garry Shandling

My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

American Comedian

Jason Mraz

I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year.

American Musician

Karl Lagerfeld

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

German Designer

Arsene Wenger

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

French Coach

Jamshyd Godrej

The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.

Indian Businessman

Jerry Della Femina

Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.

American Businessman

Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Gyles Brandreth

When I was an MP, I worked at the department where we gave honors to people from the arts world, I was quite keen.

British Actor

David Packard

Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

Howard Cosell

Sports is the toy department of human life.

American Lawyer

The department name often indicates the roles and responsibilities within an organization.

Organizational Roles

When referencing departments, it often implies internal communication rather than public.

Internal Communication

Departments can have sub-departments, showing a hierarchy within the organization.

Hierarchical Structure

Academic departments reflect the variety of subjects available for study.

Academic Variety

Some departments may be more prestigious, reflecting a university's strengths.

Academic Authority

In retail, departments are physical spaces dedicated to certain product types.

Shop Layout

Customers use department names to navigate stores and find items.

Customer Direction

 over multiple government departments. Straightforward tasks like building roads and hiring personnel required inefficient bureaucratic maneuvering. None of the departments had set rules for conduct in the park, so hunters killed park wildlife, cattle overgrazed fields, and visitors vandalized landmarks.

Who owns the "wilderness"...

 And everyone kind of sat at the table. He had these two women who were traveling with him pretty senior in his department, and I kind of said to them, "Sit at the table. Come on, sit at the table," and they sat on the side of the room. When I was in college, my senior year,

Why we have too few...

 can we put the new jobs in that area and what are the departments that handle that. This is a tough political problem. And, you know, my admonition to people is not only to get educated themselves, but help educate other people. And often, like in the US,

Bill Gates: The...

 for me i was a hard hard-charging taipei global executive and managing my diabetes was not going to be an option so i enlisted the help of the people at canyon ranch in the medical department there who i knew were a little bit more ambitious

The psychological weight...

 I worked with all sorts of organizations from government departments to building companies, and all sorts of community groups, teaching them the ways of thinking and acting that we know boost resilience. I thought that was my calling.

3 secrets of resilient...

 best place in the world then for x-ray crystallography an x-ray crystallography is now subjective you know chemistry department in those days it was in the domain of the physicists so the best place for x-ray crystallography was at

How I discovered DNA -...

 A few weeks later, the department received a letter from the homeowner thanking us for the valiant effort displayed in saving her home. The act of kindness she noted above all someone had even gotten her a pair of shoes.

Mark Bezos: A life...

 Sherry Brown got the part. I went racing to the head of the theater department crying hysterically, like someone shot my cat, to ask her why, and she said it was because they didn't think I could do the stunts.

I got 99 problems......

 a new life living wild on the plains of new mexico this project shows what can be achieved when you have a whole government department supporting your breeding

Baby Ferret Training...

 any standard of decency well first of all this is a department that this council has supported over and over again this is a police department that has