A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Dale Dauten

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Thomas Sowell

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Achard

It is only six weeks until the next meeting. I doubt they will have to go between meetings. There is the probability of at least a (0.25 point) cut and more likely a (0.5 point) cut in June.

Carol Stone

It seems unbelievable that the IMF is now boldly undoing the debt deal…agreed at its own annual meetings in September.

Max Lawson

If he's truly interested in reducing parolee crime, he should show up and attend these meetings.

Russ Marlan

Talking to people who attend U.N. meetings does not mean the one is talking about U.N. matters. You can meet people who may be talking about developing markets in their countries.

Seth Goldschlager

The market for group meetings is underserved in Las Vegas.

Keith Smith

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Thomas Sowell

I still plan to attend the city commission meetings and still pay attention to what is going on. I think we need to get citizens involved in city government. We need to know what is going on.

Raymond Thome

I believe that we had that understanding, and I will go to those meetings with that understanding.

Jinny Sims

It is not the end, just the beginning, but the homework is enormous, ... The summit itself ended, but many, many meetings, action and partnership programs must start.

Yoshio Utsumi

We've been attending meetings with the CDC. We're doing everything we can to make sure we are prepared.

Shannon Patten

You do feel like a child and the grown-ups won't let you in. There is not a tradition of the union sharing information at board meetings.

Lise Lareau

FDA believes meetings like this are essential to foster and cultivate the necessary cooperation to continue to keep our drugs safe.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb

Two, frankly, their downtime was minimal at best, because they were involved in all that we do. We included them in all of our various activities - and our activities were business meetings during the day, and in the evening there were receptions and dinners.

Brandon Hall

We always have meetings with residents.

Ray Gadd

For years, we have had in place monthly access charge resolution meetings with the local phone monopolies.

Brad Burns

I haven't taken you to any meetings, have I?

Val Kilmer

As these meetings have been inappropriately used, I will no longer commit to confidentiality on issues that do not address the exceptions, such as personnel and land acquisition.

Karla Ray

I will be working on the logistics of this with City Hall officials with a view to establishing it and holding meetings on either a monthly or quarterly basis.

Brian Walsh

It's about getting out there and selling it. I've been trying to go to all the parents' meetings.

Jim Ford

We do a lot as a group. There's the monthly meetings where we have speakers and special programs on things like diets. Then there's picnics, the Christmas banquet.

George Hubbard

There have been conversations with Dexter. We've had a lot of meetings. But it is difficult to work when one party ceases to listen and keeps going with his plans.

Bernice King

I think that it's really necessary for college presidents to be excited about the SA and to come to their college [cabinet meetings] and really show that they're enthusiastic about the issues.

Althea Tupper

I have been having dinner and breakfast meetings with these leaders to ask them to support me.

Musikari Kombo

There will be up to five live concurrent channels on the Web and eight additional audio channels covering the various committee meetings and other events.

Jeff Roberts

The idea there is to actually bring in cameras to go behind the scenes in some key decision-making meetings and product reviews.

Dan Bedore

Our (bargaining) committee saw a big difference right away out on the production floor and in general meetings. They're was more of a personal aspect to it.

Tim Giles

I really can't see us making any headway by going to school board meetings.

Mike Firsching

We want to bring everybody up to speed. As (the election) gets closer, we'll hold meetings again in each community and answer questions.

Tracey Anders

The 'right to know' is more than the right to attend meetings of all boards and commissions. It extends to the records of government as well, and in this case it covers all public officials, not just those on boards and commissions.

Paul Gillies

Last year, we had a few meetings at different tracks ... drivers and owners ... and basically we weren't very happy with the way things were going with the Outlaws.

Tim Shaffer

The Legislature has made it very difficult for public agencies to close their meetings.

Pat Gleason

We got it across to them what happened and that they shouldn't be there. All the meetings are not going to solve anything unless you communicate to the Hispanics.

Victor Padilla

We are gathering all of the information that they need to have, and we hope to finalize the meetings of the major leagues [that finish Monday in New York] in order to give them all of the details.

Stan Javier

There's always been an appearance that we always have our hand out every time we come to one of these meetings.

Danny Williams

Just being around here, being in meetings and learning and getting coached, I feel a lot better than I did last year about this time.

Orlando Pace

And we were prepared for our meetings. We had all done our homework and knew the issues.

Anne Milling

Guys in the West are a little more laid-back . . . We have to work harder to get guys organized and make sure they know about it and bring friends and guys to the meetings.

Promise Keepers

The facts are just not that. There's no secrecy (involved) in terms of the open meetings law. I think we complied.

Tad Perry

We've been holding meetings for four weeks, and they keep offering us the same thing. The only change they've made is putting the offer in bigger letters.

Sam Gordon

We learned a lot in the two meetings this year. We learned to be confident after we beat them, and the loss gave us plenty to work on.

Steve Kuplicki

Residents and council are seeing this for the first time. We want to have some informal meetings with residents and leaders from the community.

John Penachetti

There were a couple of hell raisers at one of the Piper meetings.

Mike Armstrong

This was the first conversation, we will hold further meetings.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

He's a real central banker. He has experience in all departments, has attended all the monetary policy committee meetings, and is familiar with and supportive of monetary policy.

Ozgur Altug

Because I know they are in the top tier, I have a scorecard for those suppliers and top management meetings.

Bob Currey

You don't have to always sit down to food to get things done. In fact, some would argue you problem solve better in the fresh air, so you may have moving meetings. It would be a great new trend.

Laurel Green

He helped me build my confidence. It was little things he has random meetings in the year to talk about grades, girls and life. He's definitely like a father figure.

Matt Kohn

Everybody that comes on these missions gets meetings. There are government meetings that are necessarily limited not necessarily by us. For some of these meetings, the sponsors do have access to these meetings.

Ted Liu

They hold meetings in a local tavern and don't have a lot of responsibilities.

Keith Fraser

I don't know what I'd do without meetings and the old-timers who have stayed sober and can help people like me.

Mindy Gehr

I got to be careful in meetings, he'll correct me. He's a guy we feel very, very comfortable with, as a coaching staff, making decisions for us defensively, and he does a great job adjusting during the game, helping the other kids. He does things that are unsung.

Jeff Casteel

The demographic of that meeting was pretty predictable. When I went to my first general managers' meetings in 1991, the demographics were not much different than they are today.

Jimmie Lee Solomon

We had meetings with a lot of companies. We met with News Corp, yes.

Niklas Zennstroem

We're going to hold meetings outside tomorrow.

Joe Vitt

We had very effective meetings. They were long, but we got a lot done. Each group got a fair chance.

Aaron Robinson

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

It would be a big benefit to be in the same facility. It's the ability to have hallway meetings, lunch room meetings. It's the ability to ask simple questions.

Tom Hill

That will give them four days before the kids come back for staff meetings, getting their rooms ready and training.

Jay Remy

We'll be opening our meetings to the public on a quarterly basis.

Mike Reid

I won't surmise from that that we've been 100 percent dismissed from the committee, because as soon as I would surmise that, I would misinterpret what someone had said to me. But that's accurate. We will not be involved in any of the meetings.

Gary Link

Mom always went to all the alumni meetings at Governors State to represent Robin.

Jody Walsh

We just have to make sure when we come to meetings like this, we both come with a good faith effort. To ask our input a week before is not an appropriate amount of time to do that.

Jesse Case

The ACLU believes prayer before meetings is divisive. It can make some feel like outsiders before their own government.

Andrew Schneider

We are working on meetings, our communication is getting better and both our governments are working pretty hard to solve this.

Joseph Prueher

We feel it should be for community use, for meetings and fundraising.

John Thompson

President Clinton listened in two meetings (to) our reservations on his initiative. And he promised that he will discuss these reservations with the Israeli side. The ball is in the American and the Israeli court.

Ahmed Abdel Rahman

He's not a yes man. The purpose of these meetings is to have a dialogue.

Raj Bharwani

There is always an opportunity to add in more meetings as we go if that becomes necessary.

Pam Dedent

There's meetings planned for mid- to late May that will be dealing with the issue of how FEMA should be reformed and what options the House should consider.

Charlie Keller

To think you have to get to the pension board meetings early, it just goes to show what a circus the city has become.

Joan Raymond

We're proud and happy about what we got off the ground in 2004. We've sent out a lot of mailings and we've been to a lot of meetings.

David Parry

He is very involved in the community and the hospital. He is so committed, when he moved to Lexington (Ky.) from here, he asked to remain on the (Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital) board. He still attends the meetings. We meet every two months.

John Mcginnis

It's probably the most broached topic we have at our town meetings.

Dan Mclaughlin

I have been involved in international meetings for many years and this is the first time when there is no chance of changing the final declaration of a ministerial meeting.

Cristina Narbona

I thought the meetings would be more community based, and help you make friends with people that are going through the same experiences as you.

Michael Stanga

We're not politicians, and that's where we're dying here. We've been to city council meetings now, and it's a very uncomfortable zone for us.

Christopher Sacca

Some meetings' minutes are missing. There are a number of gaps.

Thomas Frank

We attempted to relay the information in a respectful fashion, in face to face meetings so that they would hear this directly from their boss.

Bill Kula

I didn't know (these meetings) were off-limits. I was not trying to interrupt or take over their meeting.

Jackie Wagstaff

There's still some possible moves here and there. We will probably make a few adjustments based on the comments we receive at these meetings.

Rick Powell

Those meetings are so good. It keeps me proud and keeps my resentment down. It reminds me of why we are over there.

Megan Mires

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

Macaulay Culkin

It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot.

Amy Poehler

The congressman has been on the phone with all of the city and county mayors of the areas affected and trying to make those meetings happen.

Randy Ford

I am sure that this meeting will be followed by more meetings in the future. We hope that finally it will lead to full diplomatic relations with Pakistan as we would like it with all Muslim and Arab countries.

Silvan Shalom

If it is delayed a bit nothing much will affect it because this is a deadline we put ourselves, I mean the coalition and the Governing Council, just the two of us. The two of us are in these meetings ... so if we say that we can't finish it, give it a few more days. It's very logical. It won't be any problem as far as Iraq is concerned.

Mahmud Othman

This will work fine sitting out here by itself, but it was originally planned - and originally billed in the meetings - as the beginning of the future.

John Lees

We've got two very important meetings at the end of this week that are going to (really help us out). Because of confidentiality, I really can't say anymore about who they are.

Paul Stamm

If as many people show up to help us build as have come to our meetings (12 to 15 people), then it will really be tough.

Klein Nielson

When I was a redshirt, I used to go to meetings and just kind of look at stuff because what they were teaching wasn't really important to me.

William Moore

It's a story that really tugs at you, and, frankly, one of the hardest things to do at some of the meetings was trying not to get too choked up.

Bob Peck

We'll go to the community engagement meetings. We're going to keep on fighting. We cannot let this go.

Jeanie Bohl

I had to arrange the meetings myself.

Michael Dean

He's spent about 100 of the last 300 meetings on the sidelines.

Des Gleeson

We suspended today's meetings to discuss the formation of the government because of what happened at the al-Mustafa mosque.

Jawad Al maliki

The harvesters of the fish are becoming more united. When you go into allocation meetings, everyone wants that last little bit. But if we had more fish, we wouldn't be fighting for that last little bit.

Jim Harmon

They are overwhelmed by the mandates . . . the paperwork and a litany of meetings. They don't have enough time to get everything done.

Marianne Capoziello

There are some private meetings being arranged by some of the companies in town that they want to invite particular delegates to.

Glyn Meek

We encourage people to develop their own proposals, handle jobs and meetings, be flexible and independent. It's been a nice formula for growth.

Dan Barczykowski

President Clinton listened in two meetings (to) our reservations on his initiative, ... And he promised that he will discuss these reservations with the Israeli side. The ball is in the American and the Israeli court.

Abdel Rahman

[There were] a lot of bruised egos, a lot of hard meetings, a lot of cussing and swearing. But it's fixed.

Andrew Maner

What's striking is how much it looks like the statement from the last three meetings.

Chris Low

For me the really wonderful thing about doing this is that it's collaborative. The product is some place we wouldn't have gotten without all of us. I come away from design meetings all juiced up and ready to create.

Ann Gumpper

He also doesn't always act in a proper manner at City Council meetings, ... I think the mayor's office should take a little different direction.

Joseph Wood Krutch

We were always the two fooling around in meetings.

Chris Kemoeatu

We trust that this consideration will be the foremost subject of the meetings that are to take place between these three agencies.

Deidre Penfold

I have been asked to join these meetings next week.

Betty Lourdes Tabanda

[On this day, he took meetings with lawyers.] I met with Michael Bay today to try to get him back, to get a movie going with him. ... The Island.

Michael Bay

How that's done leads to efficiently run meetings.

Charles Meador

The big thing is grants that are tied to this, meetings that are tied to this. You know those deadlines don't change. They're not particularly sympathetic to that.

Joey Spatafora

We found that one firefighter was considered inactive because he doesn't come to all the meetings, but he still fights fires. He would still be eligible to vote. To my mind, if you're risking your life to fight our fires, you should get to vote.

Beatrice Mongo

We had public meetings that lasted four to five hours, night after night.

Paul Barnes

We actually started having meetings yesterday morning.

Gary Abell

It's surreal because I was comparing it to the New Orleans I went to for conventions and meetings, ... It's a city desperate to heal.

Bruce Wallace

The mayor believes that those meetings are about getting things done, not about political bickering.

Brian Fallon

It depends on the issue. If it's something people care about, then they come out to the meetings in droves. Traffic is one of those issues.

Charlotte Haines

We're going to have a lot of meetings. Every day, before every game. We had that meeting and everybody rebounded great.

Rahshon Clark

We're excited, they're excited, we've had some good meetings.

Pat Hurley

We hope to have a good idea of where the county needs future infrastructure after we finish this plan. I don't expect many changes in the update but these meetings will help us determine that.

Clyde Melick

And it's not fair to even raise executive sessions after we've had two private meetings.

Orrin Hatch

They are fanning out across the country having these so-called outreach meetings because they know they have suffered a giant PR disaster with the way they have handled the minority community in New Orleans.

Paul Berendt

We will issue out a statement tomorrow (Wednesday) when we have concluded meetings with the technical committee.

Raymond Hack

What seems to happen is you don't miss not having open records or open meetings until you are looking for information, and then you run into a brick wall.

Susan Schwartz

They will go to the meetings, be involved with the game plan.

Jeff Tedford

I've been to enough meetings and heard enough rhetoric that I believe they are not going to stop here.

Terry Andreessen

Craig Barrett's been very visible at the analysts meetings for a couple of years now. He's been very accessible as well, so I don't think there's going to be any major change in the direction of the company.

Chris Chaney

You run meetings, make appointments, but we're all pretty much equal.

Jamie Koch

That isn't a whole lot. It's getting close enough that we're concerned, and we're having these meetings.

Kurt Harclerode

He will miss no meetings here. As I told him Day 1: if I have a problem, it'll be a short-lived experiment.

Jim Daley

You know, we have learned to expect that big meetings tend sometimes to attract big crowds of demonstrators, ... The issues vary.

Stephen Hadley

The biggest investment, in fact, is the time [commitment]. We typically charge $995 per month for these meetings, which is not a big hurdle for the members.

Dan Barnett

When you have meetings on a Monday, it does encroach on long weekends. Especially if you have weekend activities planned.

Margaret Craft

Unless we are of one accord, we are just beating the bushes coming to these meetings and accomplishing nothing.

Charles Glover

We probably have more meetings than anybody I know.

Dwayne Day

I think the way we're handling public comment right now (at council meetings) is a very good thing. I'm really happy that our new mayor is giving more time to that.

Jon Wilkins

This was a constructive meeting which lasted about two hours and this meeting is the first in a series of meetings which will continue next week.

Peter Feith

We need to speed up the approval process with fewer agencies involved, fewer forms to fill out, fewer meetings and fewer rules. That's the only way we're going to free up energies that will lead to the creation of new jobs.

Michael Glos

It's going to be all my brothers, but that's a work in progress. We're having our creative meetings right now. I'm really excited. My brothers are like my idols.

Randy Jackson

At the library, we have American Girl meetings every month. They're very popular.

Ann Coppola

He may not be as heavy-handed with policy decisions. The outcomes of the meetings may be more democratic, at least for a time.

Laurence Meyer

We've been talking for two and half weeks on this topic. We're having meetings, we're having committees, we're having this, but nothing's getting done.

Peter Flood

People are afraid to come to the meetings. We get lots of hate mail.

Tully Satre

I thoroughly enjoyed the meetings. It gave us an opportunity to get together and look at the issues we felt were appropriate.

Andrew Johnson

No matter what happened here today, I'm happy about all we've done in the last couple of months. The town hall meetings are packed. Something like this will probably never happen again.

Melissa Hill

He's great, and I frequently book conferences and meetings at the hotel just because of him, ... Many times, Luke is in the lobby greeting groups; he has a little doghouse there. He's a great addition and definitely a draw.

Anne Stevenson

It reminds me a little bit of the way we?re having our little informal meetings now. That?s the way George would be. He?d come into Tom Grieve?s office ? he was the general manager at the time ? and everybody would congregate in there informally, talk baseball and have some fun.

Wayne Krivsky

We had meetings with both exchanges. They both presented us with compelling proposals and it was a difficult choice.

Jean Medina

We have meetings here, and I'm embarrassed to have anyone over.

Tony Kornheiser

I want to hold town meetings. I want to meet with the fans. I want to have them tell us what they like and tell us what they don't like.

Jack Donovan

Right now we've raised about $15 million, and that's only after eight meetings. I don't figure we'll be doing these meetings too much longer.

John Heisdorffer

You don't have to be in sports, you don't have to be a Christian to come to our meetings.

Nathan Dalpini

There are some meetings taking place.

Steven Anderson

However, there are certainly needs that they have that we were trying to address through those meetings.

Bobby Dunn

You'll have more missed meetings. But as for SOX or privacy compliance, who cares? I don't see any broad implications.

French Caldwell

She had meetings last week, this week and will have more next week.

Jim Dyke

We match up really well with them this season. They've won three and we've won two of the previous meetings and all of them could have gone either way. This one will be the same but hopefully we can level up the series.

Karl Brown

We keep hoping, by recruiting more people for meetings, they can help us come up with more creative ways to get funding.

Lisa Lombardozzi

If you go into the meetings and look at the process as a nuisance or a burden, you're going to get what you deserve. But if you follow the process, even if it means taking some arrows, it's worth the effort.

Sam Savarino

This is going to be the new blockbuster for the region. We're going to attract any number of new conventions and meetings oriented toward history and education.

Paul Decker

What we're trying to say is that we're all one community. Although we have these things that we can celebrate (as differences), we also have a lot of things in common. The point is to educate our kids while they're young, because if we educate them while they're young, we're not going to have these community meetings anymore.

Michael Styles

I'm certainly going to encourage people to keep going to meetings and calling their councilors with their concerns and questions to make sure we get the best project we can get.

Colleen Kelley

We have a clear plan for the road show and meetings with investors. We have already had meetings with 70 percent of the main funds.

Sergei Bogdanchikov

We're shooting to hold our meetings earlier. We hope to start March 6, before midterm break.

Amy Currier

Our recommendation is the light version. These meetings work best when kept informal.

Chris Duerksen

These meetings may be at a church, but they are not religious meetings. They are anti-casino meetings. We wanted to get active right off the bat with this issue.

Dan Peters

In public meetings across the country, Brother David has spoken frequently about the fact that the food system has moral implications.

David Andrews

At these meetings they were talking about non-merit jobs.

Brett Hall

It is our hope we can hold these planning meetings on an annual basis and have as great a success as Grove City has had.

Jeni Ashbrook

We don't comment on meetings with individual shareholders, but we have an open door policy of meeting with shareholders.

Ted Smyth

It's not going to be town hall meetings where we try to get them to come us. We're going to go to them. The whole goal is to really get people talking about some of the good things that have gone on.

Jennifer Steck

The last 14 Fed meetings have been anticlimactic. The Fed came, they saw, they tightened and told us to expect more of the same. Looking ahead, things are starting to get more interesting. The outlook for economy now is less certain.

Colin Lundgren

Just sitting in meetings, he's one of those guys who talks about everything.

Craig Aukerman

In those meetings, they discussed what they were going to do, who was going to be a candidate, what strategies they would use, even whom they would threaten.

Cesar Gaviria

The meetings are going on a lot longer than they should.

Ray Murphy

Some people don't want to have meetings here anymore.

Danyell Oltean

We've done a lot of public meetings. It's a very involved plan; it's a very ambitious plan for the mayor and council. It's hard to understand what's involved.

Michael Saltzman

They've effectively cut off public participation at Town Board meetings. Now the public doesn't get to be heard.

Carol Silverstein

We have sign language practices and sign language groups before each of our meetings.

Maribeth Lartz

We like to bring in a wide variety of performances, so there's something that everyone can enjoy. Chuck's name came up in a lot of our meetings, so we decided to give him a call.

Amanda Matthews

Hopefully these types of meetings in Rabat would be the beginning of more serious kinds of meetings between different Arab leaders and the new Israeli leadership.

Ghassan Khateeb

Even though you do not live in a specific area, you can come to any of the meetings.

Shannon Edge

Geez, make a decision, ... They put things off. They just don't seem like they come to meetings prepared. They don't come across as a team, and they don't get things done.

David Brewer

As the governor's town-hall meetings have evolved into pro-tax rallies, I thought we should come out and have our voices heard.

James Parmelee

It will be a sounding board for a lot of officials to make speeches but I'm not convinced that we're going to see a lot of direction for the market from those meetings.

David Coleman

We'll be having a lot of meetings in the coming months to determine exactly what will happen.

Bob Scucci

He would be in our meetings, then run out to take batting practice. Even if he couldn't go out on the (football) field, he would try to come see us and he would come in on his own time and study film.

Dan Mullen

We would like to see more of the community at these meetings. I know the project is in its young stages, but we really would like to hear from the community.

Theresa Johnson

Please do not let this be the end, but the beginning of many joint meetings to better the working relationships between communities.

Jeni Ashbrook

Schools are used for not just the education of school aged children. They're used for adult learning. They're used for community meetings. They're used for health and fitness for community groups.

Darrell Dexter

Frankly, Clorox, they are not happy, because it becomes an employee retention problem. We're going to keep having these meetings long term if the causes of this are not addressed.

Benjamin Scott

They had their meetings in German until 1942, longer than anyone else.

Gabrielle Robinson

In these days of rapid change, time is precious, and you can't afford to waste it in meetings.

Mark Goulston

We encourage people to come to the meetings and we'll see what we can get done. If someone needs help, we will find a way to get it done.

Betty Patrick

To date, there's been no municipal approval, only approval from planning commissions. I went to all the meetings they had for it. The cost is based on how many join ... I don't see any need for it.

Joseph Graves

We had a couple of team meetings after those two losses and we've really got it together now.

Nik Antropov

We've had some very good discussions, and some good secondary discussions. I've told our guys, something good will come out of these meetings.

John Schuerholz

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George F. Will