Meetings Quotes - Page 29

• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Native American, Medicine

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.

  Helen Thomas

  Morning, Volcanoes, President

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• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Fall, Gentleman

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.102, Penguin

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• Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.

  Bess Truman

  Nuts, Half, Ghost

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• That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

  Ville Valo

  Writing, People, Romance

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• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  Vince Vaughn

  Art, Niece, Home

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• For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

  Simone Weil

  Friendship, Two, Near And Far

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.42, Routledge

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• I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Love Is, Want, Film

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• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  Florence Welch

  Party, People, Social

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

  Kanye West

  Opportunity, Hustle, Way

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• Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.

  Shaun White

  Personality, Musician, Actors

  "Just My Type". Interview with Dan Patrick, www.si.com. November 01, 2010.

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• Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

  George Will

  Football, Inspiration, Nfl

  International Herald Tribune, May 07, 1990.

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• I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Media, Practice

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• Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

  Fred Wilson

  Senior, Team, Boards

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• I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.

  James Wolcott

  Sexy, Stars, Fighting

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• The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

  Tiger Woods

  People, Would Be, Gains

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• Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

  Thom Yorke

  Fighting, Artist, Rooms

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

  Loretta Young

  Home, Boys, Dating

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• Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

  Felicia Day

  Children, People, Online

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, tv.avclub.com. November 6, 2008.

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• Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

  Helen Fisher

  Mind, Meeting Someone, Three

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• Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.

  Geoff Mulgan

  War, Groups, World

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

  Howard Rheingold

  Jobs, Writing, Simple

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• I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

  J. K. Rowling

  Enjoyed

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• This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Possibility, Unreal, Asks

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