Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
You can't become a leader in one conference.
Kenyon Martin is the 2nd best player in the Eastern Conference.
The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.
Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find those potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva
I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.
I really do the conventions now for two reasons.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
John F. Sullivan
I've seen better coverage at an Alan Keyes press conference.
If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.
Every team in the Western Conference has flaws.
I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.
To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.
Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!
I don't see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.
At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.
My comfort zone is press conferences.
Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.
I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.
I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring.
Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money.
