Quotes About Meetings

I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Parents have absolutely every right to express their opinions at public school board meetings concerning their children's education.

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It's become my lifeline - forgive the pun.

Carl Page had his own idea about how to go about it. He posited that procedures contained in Robert's Rules of Order, a late-nineteenth-century manual for running effective meetings, could provide the basis for building AI.

It's not easy for anybody in a position of responsibility... There are some very unpleasant meetings. I try to think what nice things will come after my meetings are over... having a nice glass of wine.

There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

I know how to read a spreadsheet, I know what I'm worth so I can go into meetings and say, 'I get paid that much, thank you.'

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.

The one thing that I don't think the Obama administration gets anywhere near enough credit for is the high level of administrators. They meet all the time so they can synergize the federal investments. That's the way any corporation would do it.

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

responses—adults had their own gatherings,

What if we sought to develop a culture of thinking in our schools, classrooms, museums, meetings, and organizations?

We must always deal from strength and insist on verification of every agreement. In my meetings with the General Secretary I repeated several times a Russian proverb—"doveryai no proveryai"—"trust but verify."

I have never ridden a camel. I have taught a high school English class for the best part of a decade, and graded homework every night, and woken up early in the morning to plan my lessons, and read and reread Shakespeare, and sat through enough conferences and meetings for even those in Purgatory to envy me.

I rarely feel such clear signs of fatigue and anxiety on days that are filled with travel, meetings and assignments—only when I stop to rest. Without sabbath, I would be dangerously ignorant of the true condition of my soul.

meetings. (There are few public documents more indiscreet than proxy statements, in which the precise private stockholdings of directors must be listed.)

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

Some just targets a big number of busy meetings in their large sales offices; others in a large number of big offices are busy in meeting just their sales targets.

I'm going to do what I need to do in meetings and out on the field to showcase my talent that I'm a franchise quarterback and I can be a really great quarterback in the NFL.

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

I've met Bill Clinton, Obama a couple of times... I certainly didn't meet George Bush, and wouldn't want to.