53 Quotes About Meeting

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the things I’m grateful for. I know it sounds trite, but at the same time it’s so true to say. I’m grateful for my family and friends, my education, my health, and my job. As much as these things are important to me, they’re not really what defines me Read more

They don’t define who I am. Yes, at their core they are part of who I am. But if you take them away, I wouldn’t be me at all.

I would be someone else entirely. So what makes me who I am?

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason...
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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. Dave Barry
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be...
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A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. Amit Kalantri
In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.
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In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. Amit Kalantri
Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for...
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Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love. Eric Michael Leventhal
An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.
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An assembly is extra slow in taking actions. Amit Kalantri
Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we...
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Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings. Amit Kalantri
Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for...
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Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress. Amit Kalantri
You become void of products when you waste your time...
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You become void of products when you waste your time in religious meetings every day. Sunday Adelaja
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I look around, hoping I can postpone the indignity of stuttering like a lunatic in front of the sexiest man alive — according to People magazine, twice — while giving him crazy eyes. Of course, everyone looks like they’re taken care of. Except for Mr. Sexypants, major Hollywood actor, Nathanial Stone, Sir. D.L. Hess
Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it...
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Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives. Nadia Scrieva
I think there needs to be a meeting to set...
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I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings. Jonah Goldberg
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Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone. Janna Cachola
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A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work. Pawan Mishra
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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 Munia Khan
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I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure. Amit Kalantri
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My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed. Amit Kalantri
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Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application. Amit Kalantri
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A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. Amit Kalantri
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Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical. Amit Kalantri
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Pragmatism is good prevention for problems. Amit Kalantri
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God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant. Shannon L. Alder
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... 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
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How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be. Jaclyn Moriarty
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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 have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked. Steven Gary Blank
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Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'. Alain De Botton
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Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club. Ryan Lilly
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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. David Levithan
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Journeys end in lovers meeting. William Shakespeare
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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet. Oliver North
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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. Darnell Lamont Walker
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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. Paul Axtell
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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
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Actions speak louder than meetings. Lee Clow
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A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. Max McKeown
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A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else’s. Kathy McClary
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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? Anthony T. Hincks
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Meetings at work present great opportunities to showcase your talent. Do not let them go to waste. Abhishek Ratna
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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. Sebastian Thrun
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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. Lee Scott
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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. Katherine Dunn
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You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings. Steve Guttenberg
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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. Tiger Woods
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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. Annie Besant
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sowell
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Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example. Jeffrey Gitomer
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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. Jose Mourinho
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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. Orson Pratt
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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. Octavia Spencer
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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? Ben Shapiro
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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. Peter Bergen
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings. Unknown
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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. Mitt Romney