Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Saut

There is a lot of noise in the short interest figures, ... It's a stretch to come to a market investment conclusion or even an inference based on short interest.

Kent Holsinger

The real winners of this case are Dover students. Students should be able to learn about the nature of science, which can be tested based on our observations of the natural world. Intelligent design does not fit that criterion.

Dave Blank

The opportunity to return to the Carolina region was one that interested me. My decision was based largely upon that opportunity for my family. The decision was increasingly difficult as my situation here at Drake ... has been extremely positive.

Bob Griffin

The operating schedule is a collective decision based on a monstrous review a couple years back.

Mark Rechtin

There have only been four presidents of Aerospace. The growth of the company in terms of revenue and power, and him elevating the status of minorities and women in the workplace were things he was proud of. It was always based on merit of course, but he just wanted to make sure that everybody got a fair shake.

Noriaki Ichikawa

The recent rally in the yen based on expectations for an early policy shift has run out steam.

Paul Armstrong

We will plan next year's orientation based on these evaluations, and we will also be talking to the resident peer leaders who led the group discussions to hear their reactions,

Lenny Goldberg

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Jeff Bezos

We've never tested and we never will test prices based on customer demographics, ... What we did was a random price test, and even that was a mistake because it created uncertainty for customers rather than simplifying their lives.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Donald Rumsfeld

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Derek Sivers

Make every decision—even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone—according to what's best for your customers.

Daymond John

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

Andrew Weil

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

Chuck Hogan

Sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.

Chuck Grassley

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

Chuck Close

The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.

Christopher Morley

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Eric Smith

It is a very difficult position ... there is no separation, ... We are glad a new (court) is being built.

Greg Schiano

I think there's no question in the second half that we got tired. They made it more difficult on us. They ran a hurry-up no huddle even when they had an incomplete pass. I think they thought of trying to get us to wear down.

Joe Roth

I think the Revolution slate will more resemble the eclectic slate that I put together when I was at Fox and Disney . It's very difficult to justify not trying to do something different in a marketplace that is more and more selective.

Geno Auriemma

I think sometimes these things should be done when you're no longer coaching, (when) you're at a point where you can look back and reflect on all that you've done. I think while you're still doing it and while you feel like there's still more to do, it's very difficult to look back. So hopefully it's not the end for me.

Dave Nichols

Just a terrific guy. It's been a difficult time at school this week.

Jeremy London

Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together.

Billy Knight

Jason and his family are first and foremost in our prayers during this difficult time,

Peter Donovan

Jerry is doing really, truly groundbreaking work that is difficult to get funded because it's so expensive. You need someone with his kind of drive and energy to do that.

Paul Maurice

J-F (Racine) was the fellow I'm most happy with. It's very difficult to sit there with one shot through 12 minutes...And then four breakaways at the end, he stops them all.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Anderson Cooper

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Daniel Dennett

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

David Mamet

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

David Fincher

The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

David Fincher

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

David Copperfield

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.