Boards Quotes - Page 15

• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Responsibility, Men, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

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• No simple word
  That shall be uttered at our mirthful board,
  Shall make us sad next morning; or affright
  The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.

  Ben Jonson

  Morning, Regret, Simple

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”, p.674

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• all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

  Beryl Markham

  Flying, Instruments, Captured

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands. That's where my comfort zone is. So to stand outside of that, that was never my intention or goal. I never had the dream of, 'I'm gonna go into all these bands as a spring board for my solo work.' But life takes you on different journeys sometimes. I ended up playing a bunch of songs and some of them I really liked.

  Frank Iero

  Dream, Song, Spring

  Source: www.alterthepress.com

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• Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, School, People

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• There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Directors, Essentials

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.

  Joseph Pisani

  Europe, Looks, Backpacking

  "Aeschbacher" with Kurt Aeschbacher, SF1 TV channel, April 04, 2008.

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• Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.

  Matt Sanchez

  Party, Player, Video

  "AP Reports on the Wrong Massacre" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 6, 2007.

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• I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Design, Fields, Architecture

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously, I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Views, Honest, Share

  "Infosys is resilient enough: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw". Interview with Harichandan Arakali, economictimes.indiatimes.com. December 23, 2013.

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• The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

  Norman Mailer

  Running, Country, America

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

  Patrick Dixon

  Impact, Numbers, Risk

  "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

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• A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Children, Cancer, Alex

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• My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.

  Grant Achatz

  Home, Cutting, Islands

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• Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

  Antony Starr

  Skills, Collaboration, Way

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• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Europe, Bankers

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• I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

  Reed Hastings

  Stupid, Littles, Firsts

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• We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.

  John Dewey

  Country, Religious, Children

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• We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Answers, Gaps

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.

  Tony Hawk

  Thinking, Feet, Rocks

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

  Seth Godin

  Drawing, Best Work, All The Best

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  Impact, Differences, People

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• I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

  David Filo

  Proud, Return

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