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The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand. -- Bill Russell

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings. -- Ashleigh Brilliant

Business meetings have agendas, but friends have unscheduled needs. -- Sherry Turkle

to meet, despite the time, the place, and despite the circumstances. -- Amy Hatvany

There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there's so much drama and so much at stake. -- Jerry Della Femina

Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting. -- John Bolton

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words. -- Stephen Richards

One either meets or one works. -- Peter Drucker

We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary. -- Caterina Fake

I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point. -- Eli Broad

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting. -- Herbert Hoover

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page. -- Justin Rosenstein

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

The success of a meeting often depends on having the right documents - proofs, artwork, schedules, research charts, etc. - present at the start of the meeting. All too often we arrive like plumbers, leaving our tools behind. -- David Ogilvy

The meeting would be safe as a wedding. -- Mario Puzo

A group of us are going to do something. -- Tom Burnett

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It's intellectual masturbation. -- Steve Maraboli

The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity. -- Patrick Lencioni

Waiting for the end of innocence. And an idiot is waiting for the end of idiocy too, but he's ugly doing it. So each ends himself in the meeting, in exchange for a merging. -- Theodore Sturgeon

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design. -- Justin Kan

can replace being in the same space. That's exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else. In them, we discover we're not alone, we learn from one another, and so we keep going toward shared goals. -- Gloria Steinem

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected. -- Elizabeth Bowen

The trick is to shift the emphasis in any meeting away from the source of an idea and onto the idea itself. -- Ed Catmull

The meeting was generally felt to be a pleasant one, being composed in a good proportion of those who would talk and those who would listen; -- Jane Austen

There is no organised encounter group. There is simply a freedom of expression - of feelings and thoughts - on any personally relevant issue. -- Carl R. Rogers

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned. -- Lois Wyse

If he wasn't in a meeting he was in a beating. -- Tiffany Reisz

Most people don't really care about the process of a meeting; they care about the issues and the results. -- Harrison Owen

Meetings were, almost by definition, the product of the indecisive mind, and so they were usually run, and often populated, by indecisive people. -- Stephen Moss

Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart. -- Ellen Hopkins

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation! -- Steven Weinberg

We all knew there was a good deal of pointlessness to nearly all the meetings and in fact one meeting out of every three or four was nearly perfectly without gain or purpose but many meetings revealed the one thing that was necessary and so we attended them and afterward we thanked each other. -- Joshua Ferris

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. -- Peter Drucker

In this meeting there may be more than chance; -- J.r.r. Tolkien

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up. -- William Goldman

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

Presentation?" "Exactly. In front of the whole company. It's our chance to make them take notice of this department. Put us on the map. You and me. Onstage, buddy. Our moment to shine. -- Hanna Dare

Want to have better and more effective meetings? Get rid of the tables in your meeting room. It's weird but it works. -- Alexander Kjerulf

I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think. -- Michael Eisner

To make our meetings more effective, we need to have multiple types of meetings, and clearly distinguish between the various purposes, formats, and timing of those meetings. -- Patrick Lencioni

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture. -- William P. Leahy

We're gathered here with -- Rachel Hauck

Shall we ever meet again?
And who will meet again?
Meeting is for strangers.
Meeting is for those who do not know each other. -- T. S. Eliot

A typical day for me involves a lot of meetings. -- Sophia Amoruso

Negotation is a point of interection of common interest. -- Sukant Ratnakar

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers. -- Susan Cain

People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time. -- Milan Kundera

Meetings are held, wise with the wise. Because their spirits are alike.' Or minds. -- Maggie Stiefvater

You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting."
"I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square. -- Cassandra Clare

We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater. -- Hosni Mubarak

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

These meetings, they're like thieves - they follow you around, wait until you're not looking, and pounce. -- Robert Jackson Bennett

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost. -- Felix Adler

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow. -- Nick Bantock

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons -- Scott Adams

Doing meet ups is one of my favorite things ever. -- Bethany Mota

It has been my experience that the only person who enjoys a meeting is the person who calls it so they can look important and boss everyone around. -- Jinx Schwartz

stage at a Women's Wear Daily CEO Summit. -- Sophia Amoruso

I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me. -- Dave Goldberg

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions. -- Samuel Johnson

The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons. -- Tom Wujec

Let's meet as little as we can -- William Shakespeare

We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends. -- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

When a meeting goes way too long always remember that some people need to talk, but some people need to go home. -- Jim Jennings

Let me guess. Luke an Amatis are at the Accords Hall, having another meeting."
"Yeah. I think they're having the meeting where they get together and decide what other meetings they need to have. -- Cassandra Clare

meeting ever called, practically ran the PTSA, -- Maren Smith

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

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. -- Jerzy Kosinski

Most of my career is spent in a meeting ... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy. -- Tyra Banks

Collaboration across teams tends to be discontinuous and discrete (e.g., via meetings). -- Sriram Narayan

the den, drinking beer and arguing over -- Bernadette Y. Connor

Just your everyday grouping of civilized gentlemen, sitting in a round robin to discuss the events of the day with quivering erections. -- Patrick Dewitt

Nothing can replace being in the same space. That's exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else. -- Gloria Steinem

Most people doubt online meetings can work but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don't work either. -- Scott Berkun

going on between -- Pat White

Death had brought them all here for a kind of United Nations summit, a roundtable discussion on nonexistence. -- Caitlin Doughty

Meet people were they are at. -- Anonymous

What are you planning?" I asked, as we turned toward the grand ballroom.
"Just a small demonstration for the public good," he said. "I am so sorry."
"You're apologizing in advance."
"Yes."
Never a good sign. -- Ilona Andrews

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. -- Abraham Lincoln

There seems to be a culture in many organisations of simply holding meetings as a substitute for actually getting on with the job. -- Ian Cooper

I was nervous about the meeting, not -- James C. Donahue

If they can't start a meeting without you, well, that's a meeting worth going to, isn't it? And that's the only kind of meeting you should ever concern yourselves with. -- George Huang

1. The first partner in the meeting is the text. -- Walter Brueggemann

Ritual of Personal Reflection. -- Robin S. Sharma

Things you might want to talk about in such a group? -- Eric Metaxas

If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding. -- Marion Woodman

If your ass falls off, put it in a bag and take it to the meeting. -- Stephen King

This don't look like no Sunday school church meeting to me. -- Kent Haruf

Offices are peculiar places and nobody is ever quite sure what happens in them, least of all the people who work there. But the day tends to begin with a morning meeting, in which everybody decides what they will fail to do for the rest of the day. -- Mark Forsyth

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. -- Douglas Coupland

The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early -- David O. Mckay

Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other. -- Lizzy Caplan

Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted. -- Blake Ross

The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring -- Patrick Lencioni

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined
with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. -- Alexander Theroux

The oil and wine of merry meeting. -- Washington Irving

he's not sure how safe this meeting is going to be. And -- Don Winslow

We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust. -- Klaus Schwab

Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure. -- David Ogilvy

Freedom is an endless meeting. -- Ken Wilber