Quotes About Meetings

It seems that so much of good luck and bad are accidental and that the chance meetings that Pasternak had been criticized for in Zhivago are in fact the core of life.

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

Dont drink, read the big book, and go to meetings.

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

I do a lot of meet-and-greets with the people, and I do 'sign shows' where I meet people and sign autographs.

the foreign policy of any government [...] is a prolongation of its domestic policy. This is all to often forgotten in a period of 'summit' meetings, when the public is led to believe that three or four Big Men solve, or fail to solve, the world's predicaments according to whether they have or do not have the wisdom, the good will, or the magic wand needed for their task.

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

Het is altijd vervelend wanneer iemand je geen antwoord geeft of niet doet alsof hij je niet verstaat. Dat gebeurt op vergaderingen ook wel eens. De woorden blijven in de lucht hangen, zoals dat heet, en de betrokkene doet zijn uiterste best zijn verlegenheid en irritatie te verbergen door zich met een scherpe wending in zijn betoog tot iemand te richten die op dat moment toevallig in zijn richting kijkt.

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

Douglas Thornton [an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907] was often more amusing than he tried to be. He had a delightful way of mixing up two kindred proverbs or idioms. Once he told his companions that he always had two strings up his sleeve. They then asked him if he had another card to his bow. Such exchanges enliven heavy committee eetings and create wholesome laughter.

Any place with a founder who brings a teddy bear to meetings," he writes, "is a step away from Jonestown.

That's partly because Fried and Hansson hate meetings. Fried believes collaboration often turns into "over-collaboration," and that most of it is bullshit anyway. He says brainstorming "is wildly overrated. There are tech companies where you have this weird thing and people are just brainstorming all the time. We brainstorm once a year, and then we spend the rest of the year doing it.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The prayer level of a church never rises any higher than the personal example and passion of the leaders. The quantity and quality of prayer in leadership meetings is the essential indicator of the amount of prayer that will eventually arise among the congregation.

I chair cabinet, we have robust debates during cabinet meetings and we actually come to decisions as a consensus. It's very much people are very passionate about different views and everything, but that's what a cabinet should be like.

Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.

Even when we go back to having meetings in person, we will continue to incorporate a lot of the things we learned in virtual meetings to make sure we get the right engagement from all of our remote teammates.

Much ado was always made about secretive meetings.

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.

No matter how tight your schedule or your clients' time, do your best to have face-to-face meetings. It is much easier to kill a "faceless deal." And above all, act honorably. That is what people remember.

Coming back again to the investment bank world, they have meetings and all sorts of stuff going on that suck up time. Traders would all complain about the waste of time, but what it actually meant was that it limited the amount of time they were in front of their screens staring at their positions. You don't want to be sitting in front of your screen and staring at market prices for 12 hours a day. Staring at the price is not going to tell you very much.