Conferences Quotes

• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

  Francis Bacon

  Teacher, Military, Reading

  Essays "Of Studies" (1625)

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• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Ideas, Foolish, Born

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Boat, Being Wise

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

  Djuna Barnes

  Past, Legs, Planning

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.138, New Directions Publishing

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• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Giving

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

  Joseph Stalin

  Peace, Airplane, Government

  "J. V. Stalin Works" Volume 2, by Joseph Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, (pp. 279-94), 1953.

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• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Games

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  Natalie Portman

  Dad, Doctors, Mad

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• Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Leadership, World, Fists

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• The greatest blessings of general conference come to us after the conference is over. Remember the pattern recorded frequently in scripture: we gather to hear the words of the Lord, and we return to our homes to live them.

  Robert D. Hales

  Home, Blessing, Patterns

  FaceBook post by Robert D Hales from Jan 27, 2014

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• Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

  Jordan Knight

  Winning, Accomplishment, Records

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• I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

  Maurice Strong

  Believe, Moving, Gathering

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• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Names, Calling, Levels

  Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.

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• We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.

  R. Bowen Loftin

  Commitment, Texas, Honor

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• Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

  Maurice Strong

  Believe, Use, Problem

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• This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.

  Christiana Figueres

  Years, Numbers, Revolution

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• I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States

  Hideki Tojo

  Equality, Japan, Principles

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• To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods

  Frances Perkins

  Believe, Civilization, Police

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• We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  People, Skype, Conference Calls

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• You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Presidential, Gentleman, Complaining

  Press conference, Los Angeles, Calif., 7 Nov. 1962

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• Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Television, Shooting, Mouths

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• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

  Will Rogers

  War, United States, Lost

  Remark after the Versailles Peace Conference. "Wit and Wisdom". Book edited by Jack Lait, 1936.

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• The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Agency

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• I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Morning, Home, Organization

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• Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Men, Stories, Sat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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