Top 101 Boards Quotes

Ultimately I think clubs, boards, associations have to do more to provide an equal platform for women to get interviews for jobs.

I am writing a book called ‘The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.’ It’s of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes – those big long cranes used on construction sites.

Raised in a house filled with old books, I’m drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.

I love business and that’s why I go on other people’s board because it is my hobby. Some people join a tennis club to do things in their spare time. I join boards because that’s what I love.

I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.

Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

‘Women on Board’ provides a roadmap for high-performing women leaders to join high-performing boards. It is a must-read for every sitting board director, man or woman, and for everyone who aspires to a corporate board seat.

When I became the CM in 2002, I had to quit the boards of some institutions, where I was a member.

I don’t want the government to be censoring people, I don’t think there should be censoring boards, but I think that means that we the artists need to be very careful about what we’re putting out and what were saying and how we’re saying it. And I don’t think we’re being as careful as we should be.

We just lost Carol Channing, who performed ‘Hello, Dolly!’ at the St. James Theatre. I played the St. James Theatre as well. To know that you walked the same boards as somebody like that is so extraordinary.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

I served on a lot of the local boards in my local community, and then I ran for the state legislature in ’98 and ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. I mean, it was just kind of one thing after another. A series of really bad decisions.

Our leaders should certainly engage passionate advocacy of needed reforms, and equally strong criticism of policies they believe are destructive to America. But, from the school boards to the White House, let’s elect more candidates who are committed to constructive dialogue and reasonable compromises.

I don’t have continuity people. I don’t have clapper boards. I don’t have monitors. I shoot very fast, I shoot a lot, and we just keep on going.

Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons – including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay – but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.

I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call me. I just want to make a great project, and my focus is really all on that. And then I really don’t read reviews. Like, you know, go on comment boards or anything.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn’t have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

In football, every play, play after play, there’s that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn’t say which is more physical.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven’t learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn’t be on the boards. That’s absolutely what it’s all about.

I did the ‘Justice League’ thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can’t do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil – the comment boards are the devil.

I never read reviews – I never have. I’ve never read message boards, either. I’m just not interested in it in any way – I’m not interested in it inflating my ego, and I’m not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don’t read them.

School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

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.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at the university; my law enforcement career. Sitting on some boards. All the things I did before.

In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed decisions. This is the crucial edge that sets apart boards that lead from boards that follow.

With the athletes, there’s a lot of diversity. But when you look at the management, coaching and the boards, there’s not that much diversity there. I think it’s diversity within those roles that’s needed.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings – at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

I don’t really discriminate with my art. To me, it’s my art, and it’s to be expressed through whichever medium is there, whether it’s treading the boards in the theater, on the small-screen TV, or on the large screen. I love theater, and it’s definitely something I would love to do.

If the power was equitable, then our boards, then our commissions, our contracting, our wealth-building opportunities would all look very different.

I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there – the most negative people on the planet.

After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it’s very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it’s how we tell long stories.

At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.

I haven’t met a single person, Republican or Democrat, who thinks it’s just fine for members of Congress to sit on the boards of corporations we regulate, or for presidents to hide their tax returns.

One thing I cannot understand – and people are probably going to be upset about this – is why local school boards have control over educational content.

The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year.

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we’re not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we’re in.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

Whoever boards a boat and tries to enter Europe illegally has ruined his chances of gaining asylum in Europe and will be sent back.

I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.