Quotes about meetings

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?

Meetings at work present great opportunities to showcase your talent. Do not let them go to waste.

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

We only part to meet again.

Departure should be sudden.

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

I'll see you soon. I promise.”And there is, that moment, a shock of recognition. Elijah doesn't even know yet what he is recognizing. There is only the shock. The sense. That feeling of something happening that was meant to happen. Two people fitting in a space and time.For a moment.

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.

Actions speak louder than meetings.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else’s.

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by plot leaders based in Hamburg, and money transfers from Dubai - activities overseen by al-Qaeda's senior command from secure bases in Afghanistan.

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?

It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn’t matter if you’re 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could h

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone.

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

The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting

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

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.

You become void of products when you waste your time in religious meetings every day.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.