#meetings

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#control #establishes #gavel #important #instrument

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#business #decisions #i #like #make

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #come #disagree #find #get

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #indispensable #meetings #want #you

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us. ↗

— Adam Jones

#label #market #meetings #our #record

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#aggressive #around #grew #guys #i

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room. ↗

— Junior Seau

#during #gain #just #locker #locker room

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear. ↗

— Robert Shea

#attend #busily #contribute #create #dear

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

#called #couple #else #even #everybody

We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#big #big fan #chancellor #discover #distinguished