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COLLECTIONS
Fun quotes from "Rafi's rules of disorder"
By Eli Mina, M.Sc. (7)
Parliamentary Procedure Quotations
(37)
SINGLE QUOTES (19)
A meeting is a gathering where people speak up, say
nothing, then all disagree!
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. Milton Berle
Committee is a group of men who individually
can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a
problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Shirley Chisholm
Effective
meeting don't happen by accident, the happen by design.
Even good meetings can be better.
Football is
a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life - violence
and commitee meetings. George Will
NEW!
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not
achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be
"meetings". Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"
Look at
every meeting as an opportunity to fulfill your dream.
Meetings
are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Meetings
without an agenda are like a restaurant without a menu.
Susan B. Wilson
One of our
managers...had a meeting with his staff to discuss work-life balance. The
meeting started at 5 p.m. and ended at 9.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you
alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome
The Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it
means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse
proportion to the sum involved.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of
two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is
like a
blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
Paul O'Neill
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people,
two of whom are absent. Robert Copeland
To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. Author Unknown
When in doubt, don't call a meeting.
Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they
should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best
Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
William Goldman (Adventures in the Screen Trade, 1983)
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