Meetings

(174 votes)   The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(160 votes)   A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(152 votes)   I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(137 votes)   A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

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(125 votes)   dump a good idea on a meeting table. It will belong to the meeting.

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(115 votes)   A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(107 votes)   Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Peter F. Drucker
1909-, American Management Consultant, Author

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(100 votes)   When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

Lewis Thomas
1913-, American Physician, Educator

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(99 votes)   A committee is an animal with four back legs.

John Le Carre

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(95 votes)   Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

Richard Harkness

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(91 votes)   The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

Terrence Deal

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(90 votes)   The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.

V. S. Pritchett
1900-, British Author, Critic

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(86 votes)   A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

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(81 votes)   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
1931-, American Author

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(73 votes)   I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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