Meetings Quotes

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

~ Emily Dickinson

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

~ Nicholas Rowe

We only part to meet again.

~ John Gay

Departure should be sudden.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

~ Donald R. P. Marquis

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

~ Sebastian Thrun

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

~ Lee Scott

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

~ Katherine Dunn

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

~ Steve Guttenberg

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

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.

~ Annie Besant

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

~ Thomas Sowell

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

~ Jose Mourinho

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

~ Orson Pratt

It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

~ Octavia Spencer

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?

~ Ben Shapiro

The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by plot leaders based in Hamburg, and money transfers from Dubai - activities overseen by al-Qaeda's senior command from secure bases in Afghanistan.

~ Peter Bergen

The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

~ F. W. De Klerk

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

~ Mitt Romney