Quotes About A Meeting

#1. Common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen. Furthermore, What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino ... Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.

Denis Leary

#3. There isn't a man alive who doesn't have the potential to philander, given the right material to philander with. Taryn in A Meeting of a Different Kind

Linda MacDonald

#4. Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

Conrad Aiken

#5. [Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.

Matt Groening

#6. For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.

Paul Torday

#7. Vivi stood and crumpled the report. "Who's the CEO at Slakerian?"
"Jakes Echabarne," her assistant said, not glancing at any notes.
"Arrange a meeting." No one messed around with Hunting4TrueLove, whether she held the reins or not.

Cheryl Sterling

#8. When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

David Eagleman

#9. The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.

Tim Hunt

#10. The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

Maurice Strong

#11. Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.

Bob Diamond

#12. I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.

Jennifer Beals

#13. He scolds the whole staff when one person is late for a meeting,

Robert M. Bramson

#14. Never call a meeting until the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

Ken Follett

#15. Most of my career is spent in a meeting ... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.

Tyra Banks

#16. The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Laurie Colwin

#17. When a meeting goes way too long always remember that some people need to talk, but some people need to go home.

Jim Jennings

#18. Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.

Bill Gates

#19. Scores of Iraqi exiles met in London to discuss ways to overthrow Saddam Hussein in a grand gathering dubbed the 'Iraqi Military Alliance Meeting.' Of course, these people are no longer Iraqi, they have no military, and there is no alliance. But they did have a meeting.

Jon Stewart

#20. Jesse Jackson's wife was arrested in Puerto Rico while protesting the naval bombings there. Jesse said he was holding a meeting with four of his secretaries to decide what to do and that these meetings could run well into the night.

Jay Leno

#21. I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

Jonah Goldberg

#22. You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

Bill Gates

#23. My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.

Lynn Nottage

#24. Morning shower cleans my body, but my mouth gets the first cleansing. Red silk tie accentuates a navy blue suit. Ready for a meeting at seven with 'human sharks'. Red tie? Forget it, a shark knows a guppy in fancy clothes.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

#25. I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.

Andre Leon Talley

#26. The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Lane Kirkland

#27. If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

Jerry Falwell

#28. Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam.

Ryan Holmes

#29. And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular.

Patrick Lencioni

#30. A party without cake is just a meeting

Julia Child

#31. Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

Jeanette Winter

#32. It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

Mary J. Blige

#33. Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, 'Thank you! Thank you - I love your films!'

Wes Craven

#34. A bridge is a meeting place ... a possibility, a metaphor.

Jeanette Winterson

#35. German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting.

Franz Kafka

#36. It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

Hans Vestberg

#37. I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

Gustav Heinemann

#38. This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

Will Carling

#39. Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#40. Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

Amin Maalouf

#41. To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

Chris Prentiss

#42. Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'

Joe Torre

#43. On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Rick Wagoner

#44. Some goodness in this world is understood by the presence of the opposite. One will value light in the middle of darkness, and appreciate clemency by encountering savagery. Likewise, a meeting is properly indulged after having known the devastating account of goodbye.

Aishah Madadiy

#45. It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#46. That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You're both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

Cecelia Ahern

#47. A busy office is like a food processor - it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there. Each segment is filled with a conference call, a meeting, another meeting, or some other institutionalized unnecessary interruption.

Jason Fried

#48. How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.

Liam Hemsworth

#49. When someone stands you up for a meeting, sure, you have the right to be disappointed, and perhaps even angry. But you can't take it personally - they probably do it to everyone.

Ronnie Apteker

#50. Couldn't miss my baby girl's wedding. Before you go meet Derek, can you do me a favor first? I have an important package that needs to be signed for and I have to run to the City Hall for a meeting. Would you wait for it before you go? Derek didn't have a cell phone, and she couldn't reach

Melody Anne

#51. Light, Egwene thought. I wonder how long it's been since a meeting of this scale occurred.

Robert Jordan

#52. A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

John Berger

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

Pawan Mishra

#54. Talk to yourself at least once in a Day, otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

Swami Vivekananda

#55. As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Rita Mae Brown

#56. After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

Noel Clarke

#57. Now you're in a meeting.

Sarah Silverman

#58. The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.

Marian Wright Edelman

#59. Melissa looked at her. "It's a meeting with a killer, Grandma," she said. "You don't have to worry about manners." "You

E.J. Copperman

#60. Now that the midterm elections are over, President Obama has invited congressional leaders from both parties to a meeting at the White House tomorrow. When asked if he's nervous, Obama said, 'Oh, I'm not going to be there. I just invited them over. They can figure it out themselves.'

Jimmy Fallon

#61. You "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

Dan Simmons

#62. He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.

H. A. Dorfman

#63. A party without cake is really just a meeting.

Julia Child

#64. By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

Howard Rheingold

#65. A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.

Tom Gjelten

#66. The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation's leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that autumn.

Bill Bryson

#67. I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them [we] will use and value their opinions. That perks them up.

Doug Melvin

#68. Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.

Mark McCormack

#69. There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Lily Collins

#70. It's a terrific ... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

Ronald Harwood

#71. Woe betide any bishop who told the Relief Society president she couldn't do a meeting on the theme she had selected.

Mette Ivie Harrison

#72. Instead of more violence why isn't there a meeting of religious leaders. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'

Elton John

#73. Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

Dalai Lama

#74. I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

David Ogden Stiers

#75. I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but seeing that side of things [about] someone who wants to be a Unicorn but has to now be a boss and navigate this is a really powerful and interesting story.

Lilly Singh

#76. At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, I'd call a team meeting.) I ask myself, again, of the project: "What is this damn thing about?" Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down.

Steven Pressfield

#77. If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.

Ann Coulter

#78. When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.

Estelle

#79. Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.

Andrew J Dubrin

#80. A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things that they don't say.

Vladimir Voinovich

#81. I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

Hillary Clinton

#82. In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

David Amram

#83. Why can't we for once have a meeting in Starbucks?

Eoin Colfer

#84. I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

David Morrissey

#85. You notice, by the way, that we never have a meeting with an alien. It's always an encounter.

Jack McDevitt

#86. It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

Michael Heseltine

#87. Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It's not necessarily like an audition. They've seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it's a matter of "what is your take on a character"?

Ryan Reynolds

#88. Lord Vetinari in a meeting: what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.

Terry Pratchett

#89. I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

Adoniram Judson

#90. She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

Tom Robbins

#91. If you arrive for a meeting with a man you do not trust, and the man you do not trust does not arrive, do not trust the man who first arrives at the meeting.

Andrew Levkoff

#92. If you can't easily explain why you're having a meeting, you shouldn't be having it.

Shane Atchison

#93. My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

David Prowse

#94. A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.

Adolf Hitler

#95. You seem rather obsessed with Magnus. Perhaps next time I should try to arrange a meeting between the two of you instead.

Morgan Rhodes

#96. What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

Francis Chan

#97. The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

Friedrich Dessauer

#98. I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people.

Tom Barbash

#99. A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do.

Vladimir Voinovich

#100. I went to a meeting for premature ejactulators. I left early.

Jack Benny