Conferences Quotes

• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

  Francis Bacon

  Teacher, Military, Reading

  Essays "Of Studies" (1625)

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• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Ideas, Foolish, Born

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

  Barbara Pym

  Heart, Broken, Way

  Barbara Pym (2011). “No Fond Return Of Love”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

  Djuna Barnes

  Past, Legs, Planning

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.138, New Directions Publishing

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• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Giving

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Games

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

  Joseph Stalin

  Peace, Airplane, Government

  "J. V. Stalin Works" Volume 2, by Joseph Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, (pp. 279-94), 1953.

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• I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

  Maurice Strong

  Believe, Moving, Gathering

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  Natalie Portman

  Dad, Doctors, Mad

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• Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Leadership, World, Fists

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• The greatest blessings of general conference come to us after the conference is over. Remember the pattern recorded frequently in scripture: we gather to hear the words of the Lord, and we return to our homes to live them.

  Robert D. Hales

  Home, Blessing, Patterns

  FaceBook post by Robert D Hales from Jan 27, 2014

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• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Names, Calling, Levels

  Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.

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• Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

  Jordan Knight

  Winning, Accomplishment, Records

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• Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Boat, Being Wise

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

  Jane Haddam

  Writing, Fighting, Advice

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• I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Winning, Influence And Power

  Speech at the Meeting of American Residents in London, April 12, 1917.

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• I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Law, Two, Firsts

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• My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

  David Wilkerson

  Son, Ministers, Gary

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• And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teamwork

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• Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

  Brian De Palma

  Interesting, France, Brilliant

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  Hans Frank

  Circles, Decision, Political

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• News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

  Sam Donaldson

  Mind, News, Use

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• At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States

  Hideki Tojo

  War, United States, England

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• Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

  Margot Kidder

  Giving, Scary, Spooky

  Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Essentials, Literature, Language

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