Boards Quotes - Page 7

• When I am on my board, I always have my ID, ChapStick and maybe a $20 bill, because you never know when you'll need to buy a water or something.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Water, Needs, Bills

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• We are delighted that these regulations are now law, and we commend the provincial government for helping put the issue on the front burner. These requirements will push more companies to have the conversations they should be having around board and executive committee diversity and, hopefully, their talent development. Businesses need to tap the full pool of smart, talented people to stay competitive and strengthen our country’s economic future.

  Alex Johnston

  Country, Smart, Issues

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• To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Goodbye, Children, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.101, Penguin

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• In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

  O. Henry

  Art, Directors, Fiction

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.671, Delphi Classics

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• There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

  David Letterman

  Brother, New York, Airplane

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• I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Views, Boss, Chess

  "Best Actress Nominee Jennifer Lawrence Heats Up Winter’s Bone". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

  Norman Doidge

  Reading, Health, Games

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• For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

  Chris Espinosa

  Wire, Three, Software

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• A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ironing Board, Kitchen

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.53, Fawcett

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• Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Integrity, Mean, Opportunity

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• When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.

  Francis Scott Key

  Country, Song, Home

  Francis Scott Key (1857). “Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq”, p.34

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• Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.

  Philip Pullman

  Hate, Dust, Different

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Fun, Cereal, Games

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• I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

  Bhartrhari

  Pride, Fire, Land

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• Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Devil, Fats

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2697, Delphi Classics

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• An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

  Andre Maurois

  Women, Lying, Luxury

  "he Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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• I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

  Mark Twain

  Country, Believe, Humor

  Mark Twain's "New England Weather" speech, www.pbs.org. 1876.

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• The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Kids, Responsibility

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Believe, Rap, Dark

  Anthony Trollope (1995). “The New Zealander”

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• For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Hands, Together, Ships

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives - they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.

  Warren Farrell

  New York, Husband, Years

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Drama, Games, Play

  "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 110), December 1962.

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• The Episcopalians don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages? it's much like the New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments? or "Moses' talking points"? but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone."

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Religious, New York

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.105, Crown Forum

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• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  Jean Chretien

  Italian, Dollars, Canada

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Thinking, People

  "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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