Convening Quotes

#1. If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future.

Jacob Needleman

#2. Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable members of other convening professions, prefer to stay in their hotels and fuck one another

Julian Barnes

#3. Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

Marcus Buckingham

#4. I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

Joyce Banda

#5. The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face.

Desi Arnaz

#6. No one sees me changing, but who sees me? I am my own hiding place.

Joe Bousquet

#7. The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Marilyn Monroe

#8. Freedom is to depend only on the law and not on men's whims.

Voltaire

#9. The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. Death has no sense of the ridiculous,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#11. In war, there are no unwounded

Julie Ann Walker

#12. To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.

Guy Finley

#13. He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.

Lawrence Durrell

#14. Surely you've noticed that most people live without love, spending their lives trying to find people they're not turned on by.

Hanif Kureishi

#15. We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.

Richard Lamm

#16. I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.

Feist