Meeting Structure Quotes

#1. If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.

Martin Zwilling

#2. I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

Patrick Marber

#3. Have you noticed," she asked him, "how standing still can sometimes be no different from moving backward? For the whole world moves on and leaves one behind.

Mary Balogh

#4. I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The one is unthinkable apart from the other. I do not think that a more general starting-point of structure could be conceived.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#7. When you run out of love, it's really hard to understand whether you have lost your heart or your heart has lost you ...

Munia Khan

#8. Do not use worldly methods or apply human force to prevent sin

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.

Andrew Carnegie

#10. Something tells me that Alex has some demons and I can tell you from experience that those suckers don't go down easy.

Mary J. Williams

#11. Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

Anne Fortier

#12. Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

Rem Koolhaas

#13. I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal.

Madonna Ciccone

#14. Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

Daniel H. Pink

#15. I don't need you on your back for anything Martise, unless you want to go star-gazing with me.

Grace Draven

#16. If you're in a very bad mood,
you shouldn't have read this.

Toba Beta

#17. I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

Red Auerbach

#18. The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

Ross Macpherson Smith