meetings

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

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

A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

Departure should be sudden.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

We only part to meet again.

Meetings at work present great opportunities to showcase your talent. Do not let them go to waste.

Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else__.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.