Boards Quotes

• What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Mean Girls

  "George Carlin: Jammin' in New York", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

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• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sad, Running, Depressing

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• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Bars, Tools, Architecture

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• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Distance, Men, Navy

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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• I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Ideas, Special

  Interview With Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Player, Two, Analysis

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• God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

  Mark Twain

  God, Sarcastic, Education

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Games, Quarters

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• I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.

  Bob Filner

  Children, School, Years

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• I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

  David Brainerd

  Wife, Poor, Scarce

  David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1858). “The Life of David Brainerd ... chiefly taken from his own diary, and other private writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.32

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• So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

  Billy Sherwood

  Purpose, Done, Technicians

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• Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

  Lara St. John

  Violin, Laptops, Honest

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• I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Agreement, Ambassadors, Nine

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• The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

  Howard Staunton

  Squares, Hands, White

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• I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

  Steve Cropper

  Gone, Demand, Engineers

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• Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.

  Craig McCracken

  Wigs, Rooms, Determined

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• I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

  D. W. Griffith

  People, Looks, Actors

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• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Long, Earning, Pressure

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• Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Pride, Honor

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

  Toby Keith

  Country, Thinking, People

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• School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

  Eli Broad

  School, People, Office

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Eli Broad". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.bloomberg.com. December 2, 2002.

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• I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Directors, East, Middle

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• We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Children, Thinking, Long

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• I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

  Maurice Strong

  Organization, Environmental, Earth

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