Top 100 Quotes About Meetings
#1. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures. Magda
Simon Van Booy
#2. The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.
Elena D. Calin
#3. There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter,
Casper Smart
#4. I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up.
Drake
#5. My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and benefits at night. This is nonstop.
Thomas P. Campbell
#6. We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.
Cornel West
#7. What we love is that Glenn Geller admits to being a superfan of Big Brother and obviously he seems to be a big fan of reality TV, which is fabulous. He's been really, really excited and has just been smiling through all of our meetings so it's always a lot of fun.
Allison Grodner
#8. I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.
Brooklyn Decker
#9. I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed.
Michael Hirst
#10. Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.
Katharine Weymouth
#11. The fall of communism had more to do with prayer meetings in Poland than bombs dropped on Cambodia.
Brian Zahnd
#12. Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings.
Stanton Peele
#13. In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#14. To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.
Chris Wedge
#16. When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.
Isabel Gillies
#17. Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
Mark Nepo
#18. The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early
David O. McKay
#19. If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.
David Rockefeller
#20. Real-World Example = Don't schedule meetings that demand high creativity on Friday afternoon at 4:00 P.M. People are creatively empty then and their ideas will be too.
Jon Acuff
#21. When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!
Christian Louboutin
#22. After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)
Charles Stross
#23. A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.
Kathy McClary
#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. To make our meetings more effective, we need to have multiple types of meetings, and clearly distinguish between the various purposes, formats, and timing of those meetings.
Patrick Lencioni
#26. I can still feel you, Eva. Still taste you. I've been
hard since you left, through two meetings and one
teleconference. You've got the advantage, state
your demands.
Sylvia Day
#27. Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.
Norman Grubb
#28. That's how it goes. Meetings in rooms. A little diplomacy, a little give and take, a promise here, an understanding there. That's how real revolutions happen.
Terry Pratchett
#29. The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
Walter Ulbricht
#30. There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.
George W. Bush
#31. Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#32. Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.
Terry Pratchett
#33. At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
John Lasseter
#34. I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity ... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'
Kevin Barry
#35. I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
Lester B. Pearson
#36. Would you put it past Darth Sullivan to figure out a way to haunt you postmortem? He's probably holding staff meetings in the afterworld. Offering up performance evaluations. Issuing dictates.
Chloe Neill
#37. We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.
Alan Stern
#38. I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle
#39. I took several trips to New Orleans and met with people who had intimate knowledge of the underbelly of the city in the 1950s. The meetings were both fascinating and terrifying.
Ruta Sepetys
#41. My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".
John Wood
#42. 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
#43. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.
Beginnings happen because there are endings.
Natsuki Takaya
#44. [She] had felt straight away that she wasn't meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
Charles De Lint
#45. When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
Paula Abdul
#46. My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.
Sheila Jackson Lee
#47. I did not like formal meetings, because they took away my freedom. I just liked to spend time with my friends, where I could be myself and did not need to don a mask.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#48. We shall have long meetings where Kiggs agonizes and Glisselda teases him. That's the pattern so far.
Rachel Hartman
#49. She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
Julio Cortazar
#50. Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.
Brian Spellman
#51. It was probably a good idea to have you possible future stepmother think you were a little nuts. It would keep her on her toes and dissuade her from trying to sit down and have touchy-feely talks. Not that she expected that from Julia. Julia looked like she might head-butt people in meetings.
Maureen Johnson
#52. Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
Elliott Abrams
#53. 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
#54. I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
Mary Harris Jones
#55. But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye West
#56. WHY IS MY BATH COLD? Because I, purchaser of sadist shoes, needed to soak after wearing cheese graters on my feet yesterday and then traveling and walking and sitting through meetings and touring facilities and impersonating a pack mule today. 'Twas not meant to be.
Qwen Salsbury
#57. The purpose of the latest series of intellectual meetings, which were held in various parlors in Concord, was to talk about Reconstruction with objectivity, sensibility, and a lack of prejudice. As everyone had expected, the meetings were far from objective, seldom sensible, and never unprejudiced.
Lisa Kleypas
#58. He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to inform on each other, to avoid socializing to interact only through the state and to avoid unsanctioned meetings.
Oliver Bullough
#59. Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.
Alain De Botton
#60. 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
#61. It's an opportunity of a lifetime to be teamed up with (Kevin) Harvick, with Tony (Stewart), Danica (Patrick). Us four in the same meetings, it could be hell or could be great. I'm just kidding about the hell part.
Kurt Busch
#62. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.
Steve Jobs
#63. When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.
John Ridley
#64. Being on a board is not just about showing up for the meetings. A board member needs to materially contribute to the success of the business.
Scott Weiss
#65. For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.
Harry Reid
#66. There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#67. We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.
Theresa May
#68. My meetings with many different sorts of people the world over have, however, helped me realize that there are other faiths, and other cultures, no less capable than mine of enabling individuals to lead constructive and satisfying lives.
Dalai Lama XIV
#69. Millions more are addicted to Internet pornography, which has led to a horrific increase in the sexual exploitation of children and attacks on young girls naive enough to arrange meetings with men
Charles W. Colson
#70. At SGI board meetings ... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.
Michael Lewis
#71. Meetings run best when there are clear rules or norms to follow. These are sometimes difficult to set at the start of the meeting. People may feel reluctant to speak up and suggest rules or there may be pressure to start discussing the agenda items.
Ingrid Bens
#72. I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.
Luc Montagnier
#73. Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.
David Ogilvy
#74. The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.
Martina Hingis
#75. The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
John Calvin
#79. I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.
Nic Pizzolatto
#80. consider the common practice of setting up regularly occurring meetings for projects. These meetings tend to pile up and fracture schedules to the point where sustained focus during the day becomes impossible. Why do they persist? They're easier.
Cal Newport
#81. Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.
Moto Hagio
#82. There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.
Steve Jobs
#83. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul.
John Eldredge
#84. Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.
Henry A. Kissinger
#85. I have always been a leader on my team. I have always been a guy that held player-only meetings. I'm the type of guy that stood up and said something. I know how to lead.
La'el Collins
#86. Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
Alex Berenson
#87. We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings.
Billy Graham
#88. Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.
Charles B. Rangel
#89. I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.
Dick Morris
#90. Most people doubt online meetings can work but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don't work either.
Scott Berkun
#91. But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.
Louis Farrakhan
#92. At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.
Jai Rodriguez
#93. The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
Lane Kirkland
#94. When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
Herbert Hoover
#95. Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.
Billy Graham
#96. I couldn t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We d find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together
Ronald Reagan
#97. Any place with a founder who brings a teddy bear to meetings," he writes, "is a step away from Jonestown.
Dan Lyons
#98. They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.
Iris Murdoch
#99. Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
Natalie Massenet
#100. There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
