Meetings Quotes

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

The beauty of playing together is meeting in the One.

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.

Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.

If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'

We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.

I hate having people sit in on meetings.

I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything.

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

I love meeting life halfway.

My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela.

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.

Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Meeting expectations is good. Exceeding expectations is better.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

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.

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.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'