Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are"
Meetings quotes
Meetings
151 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Lee Clow
Advertising Executive
"Actions speak louder than meetings."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question."
Warren Christopher
Politician
"I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch."
Martin Buber
Philosopher
"All real living is meeting."
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"We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."
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"Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying."
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"Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours"
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"I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same."
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"Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits."
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"An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one."
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"The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand."
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"Remembrance is a form of meeting."
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"Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing."
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"The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting."
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"When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative."
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"It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say."
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"Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced."
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"Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground."
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"I love meeting people and helping them."
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"Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec."
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"If you can intuit well, you're essentially meeting the future faster."
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"Death is a meeting place of sea and sea."
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"The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned."
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"It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image."
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