Meetings Quotes

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Jean Paul Richter

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

Portuguese Proverb

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

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?

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 at work present great opportunities to showcase your talent. Do not let them go to waste.

Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?

Anthony T.Hincks

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else’s.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

Actions speak louder than meetings.

Lee Clow

When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.

Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

I'll see you soon. I promise.”And there is, that moment, a shock of recognition. Elijah doesn't even know yet what he is recognizing. There is only the shock. The sense. That feeling of something happening that was meant to happen. Two people fitting in a space and time.For a moment.

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

Alain de Botton

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn’t matter if you’re 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

Steven Gary Blank

How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be.

Jaclyn Moriarty

... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

Shannon L. Alder

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.

Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application.

I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

I look around, hoping I can postpone the indignity of stuttering like a lunatic in front of the sexiest man alive – according to People magazine, twice – while giving him crazy eyes. Of course, everyone looks like they’re taken care of. Except for Mr. Sexypants, major Hollywood actor, Nathanial Stone, Sir.

D.L. Hess

I look around, hoping I can postpone the indignity of stuttering like a lunatic in front of the sexiest man alive – according to People magazine, twice – while giving him crazy eyes. Of course, everyone looks like they’re taken care of. Except for Mr. Sexypants, major Hollywood actor, Nathanial Stone, Sir.

D.L. Hess

You become void of products when you waste your time in religious meetings every day.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.