Famous Quotes & Sayings

King Abdullah

We want to strengthen the link between India and Saudi Arabia with regards to energy, and the ability to provide energy to India over a long term.

John Furlong

We want to send the message that our focus is on ability rather than disability. It is our turn to step to the Olympic stage.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very clear and unequivocal message that after attacks like this it's not business as usual. We expect them to follow through on their promises -- that these armed gangs be disarmed. Our entire ability to move forward is based on that promise.

Bill Gerstenmaier

Wayne's qualifications and his ability to perform this job speak for themselves,

Denis Waitley

The ability to adapt is everything!

Craig Cochran

The power of a focus group lies in its ability to leverage multiple channels of communication and thought. When you buckle down and really explore the many facets of a possible innovation to the organization, you are more able to make well thought-out decisions.

Theodore Roosevelt

The potential for damage is much larger than we've seen in the past, ... The markets are a little spooked about our refining capacity and our ability to pump for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jonathan Spira

The possibilities of that tie-in are endless if one contemplates the possibility of software and tools delivered over the Internet and paid for by online adverts. This also gives Microsoft the ability to control its own destiny and eliminate the service that Yahoo is providing selling the ads.

Doug Aitken

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Mark Larson

Where most manufacturers are coming down on this is they want to work with traditional retailers in online channels as they do in the stores,

Chen Shui-bian

This is the right way to open normalized communication channels to normalize relations.

Andrew Jones

The result has been a service that looks slick enough, but in fact, offers little in the way of what's really out there. It is also very expensive, far more so than similar services offered in either the USA or Europe. Look at the US where there is competition. In some markets consumers get 500 channels and pay half of what they do here.

Prince

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids.

Stewart Butterfield

In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate.

Sergei Lavrov

Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic.

Anita Elberse

As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail.

Michael Chertoff

A well-designed TWP will provide legal channels for US employers and foreign-born workers to meet the needs of a vibrant and successful US economy without disadvantaging American workers,

Rick Smolan

Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch.

Charles Dickens

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

Charles Dickens

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

Alan Watts

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

Alan J. Pakula

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

Alain Resnais

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

Alan Alda

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

Al Ries

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I come from the mind-set that, if you want it to work, it will work, whether it's a friendship or a relationship. If you're both in the same mind-set and you want to be together and you want to make it work, you can make it work. It just takes dedication and knowing that there might be some miscommunication and lack of communication sometimes.

Nnedi Okorafor

There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.

Mario Testino

I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.

Patrick Hogan

World Wind lets users explore their world at will,

Doug Melvin

They're supposed to come here March 5. I told them we'd explore it. That doesn't mean it will happen but we said we'd look at it.

Jessica Biel

For me, getting married doesn't mean we should limit ourselves to some pre-defined idea. Rather, it's an opportunity to explore new things in life.

David Hudson

Then the sessions will get a little more challenging. Until then, it wouldn't be fair for us to explore what visions they would have in leading Mercer as president. They don't know Mercer very well. This first session is more of a getting-acquainted session.

Jack Quinn

It's the United States Senate. I'm sure some will try to use it as a platform, I do think there are a good many questions of that kind that need to be explored thoroughly with this man.

DeMarlo Hale

There were no hard feelings. I spoke to people over here and said, ?I don?t think I can pass up that opportunity right now.? I looked, I thought, I weighed, and I said I think I need to explore this opportunity, instead of maybe waiting a few more years to get the opportunity with the Red Sox.

Wang Yongzhi

It is our prime goal to probe into the secrets of space and explore and utilize resources.

George Felos

There were a lot of facets of my life that were just on the back burner.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

Daryl Hall

I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

Scott Roy

We got a pretty solid pitching performance from our guys, so I was pleased with all facets of the game.

John Tortorella

We tried to win it. So we'll take the point and go from there. In all facets of our game, I was pleased.

Matt Adams

We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One game we'll play poor defensively and hit well. The next game maybe we won't be hitting but our pitchers will pick us up. It will come.

Jorge Gallent

We need a go-to guy and he's trying his best, not only in offense, but in other facets of his game.

Marisa Berenson

When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

Vusi Mahlasela

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Chin-Ning Chu

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

David Brooks

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Don Helling

We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.

L. Neil Smith

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Bertrand Russell

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Carlos Castaneda

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

Agnes Repplier

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

Bing Gordon

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Carl Jung

You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Bill Gates

There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

Brendan Barnicle

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

John Drury

We leverage as much as we can from our brethren.

Pat Comack

AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.

Selim Bingol

They have a fiber-rich network. We see a big opportunity to leverage that for video and other services.

Lori Lucas

There's a lot of room for individuals to leverage investments in their plans to get the most out of their account.

Andrea Williams

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,

Quinten Fuentes

He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.

Dave Combs

We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.

Michael Myers

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

Ella Wilcox

Think your life was made for dreaming, nothing more,When God's work lies all unfinished at your door?

Joe Ross

There were so many lies throughout the trial.

Jeff Foster

There were several of them (lies), weren't there?

The Talmud

This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Rig Veda

An untruthful person speaks lies and as a result, is short lived.

William Penn

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

James Salter

I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.

Shawn Chacon

I see what lies ahead, ... It's win or go home.

Georges Bernanos

The worst, the most corrupting of lies, are problems poorly stated,

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,

Dean Fabrizio

We're going to play a lot of man-to-man coverage. We're also going to play some zone as well. We just want to give him multiple looks.

Jonathan Lee

When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do.

Michiel Huisman

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

John Martin

There were multiple failures. There were several points where it could have been prevented,

Josh Fox

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

Helen Brown

some people ran multiple pages they may not have run otherwise.

Carlton Cuse

I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

Gayle Lynds

Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.

Beth Moore

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Amanda Seyfried

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Elizabeth Arden

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look at every possible situation at that position. Always have, always will. We've got to get it right. We know that.

Robert Henderson

We're going to be very transparent and let them know any possible thing that happened.

Elaine Post

They're trying to work in the safest possible way. It's slow and steady for everyone involved.

Jeffrey Toobin

There really is no precedent for this kind of destruction, so every possible solution is a new solution, ... Lou Dobbs Tonight.

Mike Piazza

It is what it is, ... You have to realize what you have, and get back as soon as possible and be ready to contribute.

Lori Haley

They're being processed for removal and possible prosecution.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.