- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Meetings Quotes
What all those calendar blocks actually add up to.
This set looks at meetings as both a practical burden and, sometimes, a genuine source of connection, from careful diplomatic preparation ahead of high-stakes talks to a simple morning hike squeezed between calls. One entry finds real personal affirmation in showing up for a cause-driven gathering. See more on daily routine in Day quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.
- Creativity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
- Prayer
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
- Nov 07, 2020
You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.
- Director
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director.
- Being
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.
- Courage
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I paid careful attention in client meetings and jotted down things that quite didn't make sense. And I had the courage to raise questions and to be skeptical when something didn't add up.
- Down
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.
- Purpose
- |
- Nov 07, 2020