Meetings Quotes - Page 34

• Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Long, Soul, Pageantry

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Sex, Years

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Years, Needs

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• I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

  Luc Montagnier

  Idaho, Experts, Ethical

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• We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

  Faith Baldwin

  Learning, Likes And Dislikes, Personality

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• Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

  Plato

  Perfect, Justice, Understanding

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• I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question.

  Charlie Watts

  Business, Fall, Dollars

  "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.

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• A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all, sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life.

  Charles Eley

  Long, Tree, Feelings

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• When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

  Charles Kettering

  Feet, Achievement, Boss

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• Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opportunity, Thinking

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.

  Mervyn King

  Learning, Years, Civilization

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• If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Destiny, Thinking, Doors

  Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

  Og Mandino

  Confidence, Miracle, Plans

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• Everyone on this planet needs to be made aware that for several years now I have met and keep meeting people who no longer have AIDS, cancer, and almost any other disease you can think of, due to the continual and correct application of oxygen therapies.

  Ed McCabe

  Cancer, Thinking, Years

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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• During the whole funding process they said, 'We're interested in you guys because of your management team; we think you're fantastic...' Two weeks later they pull me into the office - before even the first board meeting - and say, 'We want to replace you as CEO.'

  Mark Fletcher

  Team, Thinking, Two

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• At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

  Michael Lewis

  Entrepreneur, Boards, Red

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• I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Responsibility, Race, Arms

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• ...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims.

  Kemal Dervis

  Time, Goal, Promise

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• If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Men, Psychology

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Leadership, Real

  "A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

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• We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

  Jack Welch

  Service Culture, Ideas, Intellectual

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• Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Regret, Long, Able

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.33

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• Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

  Ben Macintyre

  Falling In Love, Educational, Reading

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• And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate is insecure, and relationship is a security, relationship has a certainty. Relating is just a meeting of two strangers, maybe just an overnight stay and in the morning we say good-bye. Who knows what is going to happen tomorrow? And we are so afraid that we want to make it certain, we want to make it predictable. We would like tomorrow to be according to our ideas; we don't allow it freedom to have its own say. So we immediately reduce every verb to a noun.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Morning, Insecure

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