Boards Quotes - Page 25

• That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board.

  Stephen Colbert

  Interviews, Easier, Partners

  Slate's Working Podcast with David Plotz, October 17, 2014.

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• The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Virginia, Ugly, Stones

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• I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Ideas, People

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• As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

  Herman Melville

  War, Men, Air

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.463

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• Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

  Rona Barrett

  Ironing Board, People, Embodiment

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• Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
  And talk of the old country--mud and boards,
  Poverty,
  The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

  Louis Simpson

  Country, Fall, Grandmother

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.182, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

  J. B. Priestley

  Husband, Block, Men

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• When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.

  Iggy Pop

  Morning, Three, Body

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• We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Education, Children, Organization

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• Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Falling For You, Doe

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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• The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Board Of Education

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• The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Football, Moving, Years

  "Howard Wilkinson's LMA survey reveals depth of managers' dedication" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Mean, Buddhism

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• You know a good board when you see one.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Knows

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• I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

  James McGreevey

  Religious, Fighting, America

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• I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

  Tony Visconti

  Order, Years, Track

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• The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.

  Peter Welch

  Country, Calling, Debt

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• Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

  Joel Spolsky

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

  Matthew Perry

  White, Three, Four

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• That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

  Richard Lugar

  Children, School, Responsibility

  "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.

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• In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

  Janet Yellen

  Jobs, Decision, Division

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• Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?

  Janet Yellen

  Cutting, Trying, Body

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• Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

  Brandon Cruz

  Firsts, Kindergarten

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