Quotes About First Meetings

#1. Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis ... This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

Adrian Davis

#2. I remember the thrill that was mine when, in one of my first meetings, I led my first soul to Christ in America. And he was one of my own countrymen.

Mitsuo Fuchida

#3. The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.

Michael Mosley

#4. I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

Joseph J. Lhota

#5. Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

#7. How many meetings have you been in where the first dozen or so slides are full of words, and the person stands up there and repeats the words?

Eric Schmidt

#8. There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

William Goldman

#9. The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start.

Catherine Asaro

#10. When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.

Anthony Powell

#11. John jolted awake to find himself staring down a shotgun wielded by his greatest enemy: himself.

David Wong

#12. I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. Define a feather when condemned to the wind. Say how the shaft tapers, straining to be weightless. Describe what the vanes do on the air, how they luff and ruffle and flute, how the barbs somersault on the downward curve of their resisting ride.

Richard Powers

#14. People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

Mark Zuckerberg

#15. 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

#16. A leader's first priority is to create an environment where others can do these things and that cannot happen if they are not having effective meetings.

Patrick Lencioni

#17. I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#18. We all have chance meetings with people, even with complete strangers, who interest us at first glance, suddenly, before a word is spoken.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack.

Stefan Heym

#20. It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists.

Hassan Nasrallah

#21. The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.

Simon Sinek

#22. I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Rodney Dangerfield

#23. We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

Merle Haggard

#24. Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.

Lizzy Caplan

#25. The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

John George Nicolay

#26. I don't think there is one size that fits all [] I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

Steve Ballmer

#27. There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Robert Mueller

#29. It began with meetings, five months before the Apollo 11 launch. The newly formed Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing gathered to debate the appropriateness of planting a flag on the moon.

Mary Roach

#30. He didn't say much at our first meeting - nor at any of our meetings since, come to think of it - but left him into a room, and everyone in it seems to breathe a sigh of relief. I have never in my life had that effect on anyone; I can't imagine why not.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#31. I weave the shoes of Sorrow:
Soundless shall be the footfall light
In all men's ears of Sorrow,
Sudden and light.

William Butler Yeats

#32. Thank you for meeting me. And for not being a serial killer." I laugh, and take his hand. "Agreed. I was actually planning on being a serial killer but decided against it. My day is kind of full. Meetings.

Alessandra Torre

#33. We'd met at university, where he was studying medicine and I was studying social awkwardness and a catastrophic inability to cope with deadlines.

Tammy Cohen

#34. It is easy to write when you don't know how.

Judy Delton

#35. Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.

Katherine Parkinson

#36. The Arcturians had been the first alien race mankind had encountered, and those initial meetings had marked a turning point for the human race.

James A. Moore

#37. 'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.

Matthew Pearl

#38. Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Seth Godin

#39. We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.

Tom Wujec

#40. While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

Tim Allen