Boards Quotes - Page 4

• Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.

  Ben Nicholson

  Cutting, Direct, Edits

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• I like the responsive, quick feeling I get out of the Proton, and I am excited to have this board as my model.

  Dane Reynolds

  Feelings, Excited, Proton

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• It was what God had taught me growing up that helped me overcome my fear and get back on the board. 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go' (Joshua 1:9).

  Bethany Hamilton

  Strong, Growing Up, Overcoming

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• I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

  S. R. Nathan

  Struggle, Government, Labour Movement

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

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• It should not be difficult to accept the idea that someone else is, in 'your experience of them', in part your self-creation. But it is difficult and sometimes impossible. Impossible because accepting the idea that you are in part creating your 'other' forces you to take on board a high degree of self responsibility. Few of us easily do that. p.234

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Responsibility, Self, Ideas

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• What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable.

  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Social, Robust, Treats

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• Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

  Bai Juyi

  Autumn, Dark, Winter

  Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”

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• It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.

  Willie Mason

  Senior, Football, Player

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• Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Risk, Quality, Rooms

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• If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.

  Trevor Nisbett

  Lonely, Home, Kids

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• As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Mistake, Memorable, Games

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• Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board.

  Warren Buffett

  Sloth, Style, Banking

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• Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Smart, Octopus, Relax

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• I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

  Robert Crais

  Wall, Ideas, White

  "Crais fans 'Taken' on thrilling ride in new novel". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

  Shaun White

  Moving, Thinking, Snowboarding

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• The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two, Police, Three

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• The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Squares, World

  Quoted by "Punch"; reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work.

  Max Muller

  Real, Origin Of Life, True Joy

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• When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

  Oscar Levant

  Friends, War, World

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• Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You, Lying, Honor

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• Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

  Barbara Jordan

  Requirements, Fairness, Treats

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• When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

  David Bronstein

  Opponents, Chess, Strategy

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• If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

  Irving Chernev

  Queens, Kings, Men

  Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

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• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Country, Children, Real

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