Meetings Quotes - Page 35

• Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Leadership, Opportunity, Organization

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• We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

  Cornel West

  Next Steps, Movement, Alive

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• Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

  Morton Blackwell

  Thinking, Political, Missing

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• I'm far from being reclusive. I have thirty or forty year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Friendship, Party, Mean

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• 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?'

  Aaron Levie

  Three, Asking, Brilliant

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• A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things.

  Ernest Fenollosa

  Eye, Cutting, Doe

  Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.82, Fordham Univ Press

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• I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

  Kanye West

  Guy, Trying, Want

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• In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Love, Real, Believe

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• But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus - mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy.

  Raul Hilberg

  Taken, Reading, Agency

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• Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.

  Jandy Nelson

  Love, Wall, Book

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• Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

  James MacDonald

  God, Christian, Religion

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2015

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• Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

  Gene Edwards

  Jesus, Church, Ministry

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• Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Simplicity, Faces

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• Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.

  Alan Cohen

  Divine Order, Spirit, Concerned

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• What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Couple, Reading, Yesterday

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• During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.

  James Gosling

  Eye, Google, Patents

  "Oracle-Google Suit Attacks Open Source Software" by David Kravets, www.wired.com. August 13, 2010.

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• We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support

  Hjalmar Branting

  Years, Support, Understanding

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• Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.

  Martin Bashir

  Reflection, Issues, Focus

  "Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC" by Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. December 4, 2013.

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• I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

  Jose Andres

  Thinking, Should Have, Food Trucks

  "José Andrés Unveils New Food Truck Pepe" by Rachel Tepper, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

  Paula Danziger

  Circles, People, Want

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

  Moto Hagio

  Meeting Someone, Humans, Parting

  "Fictional character: Subaru". TV Series ".hack//SIGN", www.imdb.com. (2002–).

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• A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

  Max McKeown

  Mind, Strategy, Meetings Of The Minds

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.148, Pearson UK

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• Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.

  Simon Van Booy

  Past, Clumsiness, Enough

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.225, Oneworld Publications

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