Boards Quotes - Page 10

• Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, School, People

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• There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Directors, Essentials

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mean, Enemy, Battle

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.443, Cambridge University Press

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• The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.

  Ashot Nadanian

  Beautiful, Moving, Pieces

  chessville.com, October 31, 2010.

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• In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.

  Joseph Pisani

  Europe, Looks, Backpacking

  "Aeschbacher" with Kurt Aeschbacher, SF1 TV channel, April 04, 2008.

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• Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.

  Matt Sanchez

  Party, Player, Video

  "AP Reports on the Wrong Massacre" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 6, 2007.

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• Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

  Owen Feltham

  Time, Commitment, Anchors

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• I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Design, Fields, Architecture

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously, I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Views, Honest, Share

  "Infosys is resilient enough: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw". Interview with Harichandan Arakali, economictimes.indiatimes.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Different, Sexuality

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• I think a lot of awesome stuff is coming out with smaller presses. Small presses don't have to have huge board meetings to talk about how to market their books or what to publish - they can take more chances. They can help new authors grow in a healthier, often more artistic way.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Book, Thinking, Stuff

  "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.

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• I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Kids, Cutting, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

  Norman Mailer

  Running, Country, America

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to. What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office and they say, "Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?".

  Robert Ben Garant

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

  Jenny Han

  Dog, Divorce, Eight

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• The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

  Patrick Dixon

  Impact, Numbers, Risk

  "Futurewise". Book by David Perkins, 1998.

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• A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

  Chris Pine

  Night, Facts, Steps

  "Chris Pine Remains People Like Us". Interview with Ann Lieber, www.theatermania.com. June 29, 2012.

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• You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

  Avan Jogia

  Opportunity, Jumping, Path

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Children, Cancer, Alex

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• My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.

  Grant Achatz

  Home, Cutting, Islands

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• The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.

  Virginia Knauer

  Distance, Organization, Corporations

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• Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

  Antony Starr

  Skills, Collaboration, Way

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• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Europe, Bankers

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• The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

  David Copperfield

  Littles, Firsts, Disappear

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