Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
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Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness."
Merton Miller
Economist
"I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board."
Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life."
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"The bulldogs with the first points on the board. Tim Tebow looking to change that."
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"Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious."
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"I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer."
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"Boards don't hit back."
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"You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University."
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"[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them."
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"I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied."
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"A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls."
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"Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace."
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"You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints."
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"You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level."
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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation."
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"I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off."
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"Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board."
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"I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something."
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"Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?"
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"I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously, I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything."
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"Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same."
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"I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game"
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"Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board."
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