Boards Quotes - Page 5

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints.

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

I don't like sitting at a keyboard.

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

Calling each other faggots behind the keys of a message board.

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.

In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

There are several multiple-witnessed events where humans have been taken on board spacecraft.

Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.