Top 255 Meetings Quotes

We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it – which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.

I want to be an involved parent in my daughter’s life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.

I’m from L.A., and when you work out in the day, you usually stay in your workout clothes. So I always liked it where I can go to meetings in my workout clothes and still feel on it and fashionable.

I know I like to get in the zone, maybe stick on my headphones and listen to music. It helps me concentrate and go over what we’ve talked about in the team meetings, so I can visualise what’s ahead.

As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely – you’re in and out of meetings all the time, bouncing stuff back and forth with the level designers, the art department, the animation team, so forth.

We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.

My mom – when I complained about my weight, she asked me if I wanted to keep complaining or do something about it. Then she took me to Weight Watchers when I was 10 years old, meetings and all!

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That’s one of the things I learned in corporate America – that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it’s over. I don’t stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.

I stay up on current events. I read ‘The New Yorker’ and ‘The Economist.’ I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

After you shoot a day’s work, you gotta see rushes, and then you have more meetings with the budgets, with your producers, with your designers. It’s never-ending.

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I’ve told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It’s not personal, it’s business.

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they’ve been very helpful.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I didn’t want to do two years in the regular army, my music career was just getting started. So, I joined the Guard where, after going to weekend meetings, you’d do six months of active duty, with three months of basic training and three months of on-the-job training.

I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: ‘strength.’

Typing with your fingers or thumbs is sooooo 2012. I tweeted that earlier in the year. I type with my eyes. Not only that, I navigate my computer, create and play music, keep a calendar, conference call, lead web X meetings, text and, obviously, tweet with my eyes.

I feel like team meetings should happen one time a year, and that should be it.

Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.

It’s not easy for anybody in a position of responsibility… There are some very unpleasant meetings. I try to think what nice things will come after my meetings are over… having a nice glass of wine.

Since ‘A Dangerous Method,’ I’ve had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of ‘Drive.’ And they all have the same thing in common; they say: ‘Wow you worked with Cronenberg.’ He gave me instant film cred.

If I’m in work mode and going to meetings, I’ll make an effort and dress up, but when I’m at home or just chilling, I’m in beanies and jeans and sneakers.

I did a video with Mick Jagger down in Rio de Janeiro. But I played a video director, and that’s the closest I’ve gotten to directing, except Bob Dylan came and had a few meetings with me about doing a video for him.

I remember when I used to go to coaches’ meetings and stuff like that and I would never say anything – I would just sit in a corner and sometimes coaches wouldn’t even shake my hand.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

When I used to go the E.U. for meetings, I often had a terrible cold to insist that I didn’t get enveloped in a bear hug. All the E.U. commissioners love doing their big hugs.

‘Seven Sonatas,’ with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins’ glorious ‘Dances at a Gathering.’

I think I might have exaggerated some abilities in the past. Practical abilities for acting jobs you sometimes have on your CV – I have definitely exaggerated in meetings to get a job and then not been up to scratch on the day.

I’ve witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

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.

In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.

It’s rare to find a corporate partner who encourages true creativity, but our meetings with Lionsgate’s creative team convinced us that this is the right move for RocketJump and our millions of fans.

Parents have absolutely every right to express their opinions at public school board meetings concerning their children’s education.

And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

I’ve given it all from my combine to my pro day to my meetings with teams.

In the summer of 2007, I was in New York for some meetings and… I rented a car and just drove to Staten Island to take a glance and remind myself about it. I ended up staying a couple of days there in a hotel and I’ve been all over the island several times since.

I can’t believe that I’m sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to represent all the Rogers out there who don’t have a seat at the table. People of colour were not at the table, and now I am there, I want to change things.

In my experience, with very few exceptions – I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions – the one thing that most editors don’t want to do is edit. It’s not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best – I suggest to you – move in the opposite direction.

What I see around the management team meetings and the conference tables I sit at is that there isn’t that same comfort level in other women who are rising the ranks. And I don’t know how to fix that.

I’m not going to sit here and say, ‘Pity me; I came from modeling.’ It’s opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they’ve heard the name before. That’s an advantage that I have.

I’d be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

I’m not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I’m not going into that.

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn’t have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I’m increasing the probability of those encounters.

I think that’s the difference between meetings in New York and L.A. In New York, it’s like, ‘Be there, and be there on time.’ In L.A. it’s like, ‘Oh, we get it. You might have ran into traffic. We’ll reschedule.’