Meetings Waste Time Quotes

#1. There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Fredrik Bajer

#2. I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.

Dave Goldberg

#3. I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

Daphne Du Maurier

#4. I am forever being captured these days. It isn't like me at all. You must think me such a silly princess.

Philip Reeve

#5. A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work.

Pawan Mishra

#6. We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.

Joshua Schachter

#7. the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.

Pat Cadigan

#8. Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.

Wayne Dyer

#9. Meetings: "They often include at least one moron who inevitably
gets his turn to waste everyone's time
with nonsense".

Jason Fried