Best Boards Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I'm very visual. So even for red carpets, I'll create mood boards. I love a good shared photo album and to tag everyone and be like, 'look, look, look,' for hair, makeup, and clothes. I will take from history - known people in the world but also in my personal life. I will take the essence of them and insert them into the character.”

“With the athletes, there's a lot of diversity. But when you look at the management, coaching and the boards, there's not that much diversity there. I think it's diversity within those roles that's needed.”

“On the board of a financial institution, especially one that took TARP money, it has changed radically because the regulators have been vocal about what they want boards to do and how involved they want boards to be in the management of a company.”

“I have sat on the boards for businesses and I am always the only person that looks like me in those rooms.”

“When I became the CM in 2002, I had to quit the boards of some institutions, where I was a member.”

“I don't want the government to be censoring people, I don't think there should be censoring boards, but I think that means that we the artists need to be very careful about what we're putting out and what were saying and how we're saying it. And I don't think we're being as careful as we should be.”

“You only have to go on a couple message boards to know what the fans want, and the fans want you to put it on the line and to entertain them.”

“I don't believe in quotas for quotas sake, but I think companies without any women on their boards should write to their shareholders and explain why - explain how many women they've interviewed, why they haven't taken anybody on.”

“I've always been a very visual creator. I make mood boards or sit with coloured pencils and scribble and try and figure out what I'm trying to work through musically.”

“I served on a lot of the local boards in my local community, and then I ran for the state legislature in '98 and ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. I mean, it was just kind of one thing after another. A series of really bad decisions.”

“I have a very varied taste in music from Boards of Canada to Radiohead. So I just love making music and being in the studio.”

“The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.”

“Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.”

“When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.”

“I don't have continuity people. I don't have clapper boards. I don't have monitors. I shoot very fast, I shoot a lot, and we just keep on going.”

“School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.”

“The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.”

“The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.”

“I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.”

“I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.”

“One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team.”

“I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.”

“And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.”

“We stand for getting government out of the way, letting people make good decisions for themselves, in education, returning power to school boards and to teachers and to parents so they can educate the children.”

“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.”

“When I worked in financial services, as part of a female-led business, I found that pitching to very male-dominated boards created stress.”

“I create mood boards, and then we source fabrics and design the dresses. We are trend-led but also do our own thing! I want women to feel fabulous in our creations.”

“If the power was equitable, then our boards, then our commissions, our contracting, our wealth-building opportunities would all look very different.”

“I'm basically a mom who loves vision boards, dream lists, and 'The Secret.'”

“I think 'Greenleaf' has taken television up a notch all the way across the boards - from wardrobe and everything.”

“For me, I spent months on job boards in 2010 and was frustrated by the experience. It's antiquated and clunky, and there was nothing about a particular job posting that helped me favor one company over another. You literally get a list of 5,000 jobs that look the same.”

“Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.”

“I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.”

“I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.”

“Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.”

“Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.”

“There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.”

“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.”

“Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.”

“The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.”

“I haven't met a single person, Republican or Democrat, who thinks it's just fine for members of Congress to sit on the boards of corporations we regulate, or for presidents to hide their tax returns.”

“My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.”

“I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.”

“One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local school boards have control over educational content.”

“I do look at leader boards. I want to know where I'm at.”

“I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.”

“I don't really discriminate with my art. To me, it's my art, and it's to be expressed through whichever medium is there, whether it's treading the boards in the theater, on the small-screen TV, or on the large screen. I love theater, and it's definitely something I would love to do.”

“When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.”

“I got to college, and I wasn't on any draft boards. I got to college and started playing well, and all of a sudden, the talk picked up. It was like, 'Oh yeah, this kid is here, too.'”

“These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.”

“Yes, I'd really love to get a chance to tread the boards in the West End, that would be incredible.”

“I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.”

“Look for cars where people might not look, like shopping centres or notice boards as you can find some real gems that other people have not even thought of.”

“We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.”

“I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.”

“I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'”

“One of my roles is rebounding the ball and not giving up offensive boards, and I feel like I can be one of the best in the league at that.”

“A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.”

“Diverse perspectives lead to a better outcome. There's so much data, when you look at the math, in terms of the investor returns and the shareholder value that gets created from more diverse boards.”

“So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.”

“Cultural issues can be handled by states, and they can be handled by school boards and local libraries and city commissions.”

“It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.”

“Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.”

“Parents have every right to tell school boards what their children should be taught and every right to be upset when they are ignored.”

“I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.”

“There are 58 million people with some kind of disability in America, so it's the largest minority, really, in America, and it lags behind in education and economics and jobs, so outside of 'CSI' and outside of my music, I serve on a couple of boards, and I'm trying to be a part of the movement that changes this.”

“I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.”

“People talk about flip charts, tactic boards and other rubbish like that. But the truth is that as a manager you just need to get the best out of the players at your disposal.”

“I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.”

“I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.”

“It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.”

“Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.”

“Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.”

“Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.”

“When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.”

“Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.”

“Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.”

“You can write a thousand lists and make a million vision boards, but if you don't clearly feel what you want to experience, it will never truly manifest into form.”

“I had a second-degree-blue-belt test, and I broke two boards with my right foot, and the next day I walked into school, and no one ever picked on me again. I suddenly believed in myself and respected myself. I had some inkling of my power, so the bullying stopped instantly.”

“It shouldn't be normal to seldom see a single female face in a managerial position or on the boards of the biggest media companies, or to feel out of place sitting in a meeting room full of middle-class, middle-aged white men explaining to you how to tell your own story.”

“We just lost Carol Channing, who performed 'Hello, Dolly!' at the St. James Theatre. I played the St. James Theatre as well. To know that you walked the same boards as somebody like that is so extraordinary.”

“Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.”

“Shining a light on issues like the gender pay gap and whether firms are imposing and meeting targets is how diversity gets pushed up the priority lists of boards. Greater transparency allows for more effective scrutiny.”

“'Youngblood' #1 was my first brush with Internet bashing. Message boards were just emerging, but the criticism was drowned out by millions of copies flying off shelves.”

“So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.”

“Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.”

“I don't have a great story, but I love Boards of Canada. I didn't get into it when it was happening; I got into it later on.”

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

“At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.”

“The problem with the Democratic Party is, we're like, 'If we just get another presidential candidate in there, everything will be OK.' We should be focusing on school boards, city council races, state legislatures.”

“I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer.”

“I had Ohio teeth. Picture a fence with missing boards... I had gaps between a bunch of different ones.”

“I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.”

“There's that thing where every actor is like, 'I want to be the lead' and I certainly had that written on my vision boards every, single year.”

“Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.”

“In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.”

“The 'World Wide Web', as people quaintly called the Internet in 1996, was more or less made up of text. There was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was, however, Usenet, a loose and difficult-to-navigate assortment of message boards.”

“I serve on a lot of charitable boards - the areas of mental health parity, services for those that are underserved, and certainly children's rights are things that I believe in very, very strongly.”

“Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name.”

“Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.”