Meetings Quotes

• My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Time
  • May
  • Night

• Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

  

  Peter Orszag
  • Important
  • Day
  • Meetings

• Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Black
  • Couple
  • Thought

• When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Engagement

• I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Idea

• I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Remember
  • Old
  • Meetings

• If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.

  

  Joel Houston Hillsong United
  • God
  • Missing
  • Worship

• Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • World
  • War

• 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
  • Meetings
  • Unreal

• I always show up to the office sweaty! I'll come in between workouts in a tennis skirt drenched in sweat. The only time that I actually look presentable is at meetings.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Look

• I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• Most people simply don't view going to meetings as doing work.

  

  William Daniels
  • People
  • Views
  • Meetings

• When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Why
  • Myself

• I love traveling and I love seeing new places and meeting new people, but at the same time, it takes a certain amount of emotional strength to gel with that, at least for me.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Certain

• When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom." Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Certain

• “Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Monday
  • Clinton
  • Secretary

• In our early days she went with me to the eugenics meetings, but that period soon ended.

  

  Christina Stead
  • She
  • Went
  • Eugenics

• I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.

  

  Steve Kanaly
  • Brother
  • Meetings

• I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Remember
  • First Time

• The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Giving
  • Present
  • Vision

• It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Remember
  • Moving
  • Journey

• Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Ends

• Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Creativity
  • Meetings
  • Discussions

• As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Realizing
  • Rooms
  • Balls

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