Meetings Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Government, Important, Heat

  Richard Holbrooke (2011). “To End a War: The Conflict in Yugoslavia--America's Inside Story--Negotiating with Milosevic”, p.26, Modern Library

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• I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.

  Angela Lansbury

  Sublime, Roles, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

  Tony Benn

  Internet, Bigs, Scales

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• Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Book, Paper, Stones

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Keys, Organization

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “The Heart of Social Change: How to Make a Difference in Your World”, p.30, PuddleDancer Press

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• The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

  Vladimir Putin

  Anxiety, Defense, Ministry

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• Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ideas, Interviews, Knows

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

  Dave Douglas

  Culture, Initiative, Advancing

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• Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Thinking, People

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Responsibility and commitment are key elements in meeting obligations.

  Zig Ziglar

  Commitment, Responsibility, Keys

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• Meeting important emotional needs creates the feeling of love, but thoughtfulness keeps it alive.

  Willard F. Harley

  Emotional, Feelings, Important

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• No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Mind, Important, Lectures

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• I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Chance, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

  Seth Godin

  Excellence, Specs, Settings

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• It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

  Isaac Asimov

  Insecurity, Height, Tests

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.246, Macmillan

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• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Military

  Gail Sheehy (1990). “The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Memorable, Caring, Design

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1990). “Composing a Life”, Plume

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• The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

  Aamir Khan

  Journey, People, Achievement

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• We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Meeting Someone, Someday, Humans

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• Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Dream, Events, Chance

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.44, Penguin

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• We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable.

  Charlie Munger

  Senior, Groups, Boards

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• I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Expectations, Age

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