Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Pat Summitt

As a great long-range shooter, she has drawn the best defender, usually the most athletic, sometimes players with a lot of size. In essence, with her ability to shoot the ball the way she can, she has become a target for every team we play.

Alec Richards

As a goalie your main job is to stop the puck. I view it as an exciting challenge every game and I try to do my part to help my team win games. I have a lot of confidence in everybody's ability in front of me, so it makes my job a lot easier.

Brian Sabean

As a GM, to get a switch-hitter who's a leadoff hitter with a lot of dimensions -- power, speed, the ability to play the outfield the way he does -- is a godsend to the organization. The opportunity was great, the timing was wonderful and he's very deserving.

John Efford

As a major energy producer, Canada has the ability, and the obligation, to be a part of this important effort,

Alan Wilson

The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.

Thomas Bailey

The bottom line is that this transaction will dramatically change the financial profile of the company and significantly enhance investor confidence in the ability of the company to deliver future growth in its results.

Bill Lester

The building itself could function forever. The real cutting issue is the ability to generate money.

Jim Mooney

Avnet has utilized Data I/O's automated systems for some time, but this investment in these multiple systems is due to a careful trade study from which we determined Data I/O's systems represent the best match with our current and future requirements in both programming technology and capacity. Continuing to utilize these capabilities will undoubtedly prove to be a huge advantage for our customers when servicing their needs. It is also important for us to optimize Avnet's ability to support customers on a worldwide basis. Leveraging Data I/O's strong relationships with leading semiconductor companies on an international level will help us achieve that goal.

Mats Sundin

As a team, we are scoring some goals but we still have a lot of work to do. If we want to compete with Ottawa and the other top teams in our conference, we have to do better in our own end.

Todd Helton

Any win is a good win, especially on Opening Day, but this is a game where we found a way to win. If we are going to compete this year, that's the kind of game we have to win.

Larry Lewis

The one thing I've realized is our kids will compete in a big venue, ... When you go into these games, you take away all the positives. Did they play hard? Did they get better?

Paul Chellgren

The one lesson we can learn from Europe wireless is having one GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) standard. Can we as an industry compete -- but also work towards -- a standards solution will be a major question.

Chris Tomlinson

After a hard winter's training I can't wait to compete in Glasgow and get some good jumps under my belt.

Rick Schwartz

The most significant thing he said is he is not going to compete at the high end of the consulting arena. I actually think it's a smart move -- they've got their hands full.

Craig Stevens

The most important thing at the moment is Ian's health and I'm just hoping he can get over his bronchitis and get fit and healthy and go on to compete later this year.

Andy Roddick

Now I feel I can be a contender and when I'm looking into the grand slams it feels like I can compete all the way into the second Sunday.

Dave Beeler

Sometimes you've got to step up and compete and that's what we did today. A lot of freshmen stepped up.

Eugenie Scott

The most toxic thing about this whole discussion is the impression that most of the public has, that there's a line in the sand, and you have to be on one side or the other.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Once we start to discuss security issues my personal view (is) that at one point the U.S. should also be engaged in a dialogue.

Tom Pilla

Performance goals are individually established. We don't discuss those compensation issues.

Dan Bartlett

I've never heard the two even discussed together.

Harry Redknapp

I've not discussed it with Milan yet. I don't know where it's at yet. But if someone's going to come in and we are going to be able to improve the playing squad, which we need to do, it's got to be good for the football club.

Porter Goss

It would be a huge embarrassment for us not to discuss the Kosovo situation.

Jill Koenitzer

It would be similar to what we did this year. It's a great opportunity for parents, teachers and students to get together and discuss expectations.

Tara Fisher

These events are a way to open discussion that might not otherwise be talked about.

Arlen Specter

I should stay away from a discussion of specific cases,

David Carr

As far as the records go, that has to be thrown out the window for right now when I go talk to the guys when I'm trying to get them encouraged and get them pumped up and ready to play. We have to lock it up, run the right route. I'll hit you and then we'll worry about the record later.

Justin Vernon

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

Jeff Conine

You sure hope so. You got to hope and feel encouraged by the fact that, if we keep this team together and play as excitingly as we have next year, that they'll come out to support us.

Barbara Pym

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Eric Kandel

What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.

Charles R. Swindoll

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

Charles R. Swindoll

You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.

Jane Austen

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Tom Freston

As a global media platform company, we are looking at various projects in many parts of the world.

Zhang Yansheng

The soaring Sino-US trade should be viewed in the global context.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Dave Edwards

The world has become global on everything else. Why not this? ... NASCAR used to be a Southern sport. Now it's coast-to-coast.

Ian Stewart

This is symptomatic of a stronger global economy.

Matthew Davis

This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Dean Boyer

We want this initiative to be seen as reasonable and fair. Our initiative treats all property owners the same, and we wanted to pick a reasonable period of time.

Steve Kennedy

On the levy, I personally feel it ought to be a November levy and it ought to be done by initiative petition instead of us standing up here voting for it. You have to get 363 signatures to start the process.

Igor Shpilband

People try to be new. Sometimes they push it a little too far, I agree. I like innovation instead of repeating something that has been done.

Edmund Burke

To innovate is not to reform.

Craig Mundie

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Andy Bechtolsheim

Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Robert Metcalfe

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Scott Adams

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

Ray Mabus

A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.