Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Smith

We want to stay away from penalties and turnovers and not give up big plays on defense. It's going to come down to execution and effort.

David Orton

We are pleased with our overall progress in the quarter and remain intensely focused on technology leadership and operational execution.

Tim Parmeter

When we do what we're supposed to do, and we have execution, we're going to be hard to stop.

Pam Borton

It's not missing shots or lack of execution.

Robert Niblock

It's obviously a reflection of the programs we have in place and the improvement in our in-store execution -- but don't underestimate the impact of the unseasonably mild weather we had in the fourth quarter.

Brian Gruber

It's a gutsy play, but it's all about execution.

Jeff Tarter

A true remote execution has a tiny footprint and won't need much of a system.

Tracey Kelusky

Our execution was terrible. If our power-play capitalizes on half our chances, we're in a one-goal game.

Mark Turgeon

Our execution was good. We worked really hard this week. Not knowing who you were going to play really helped us because we worked on us, and I think it showed today in our execution.

Scott Squires

We're focused on this year's tough schedule. The SCIAC is really up this year. With the improvement in the league, it should be a dogfight week in and week out all the way to the end.

Andrew Wright

We're focused on the Internet community. That market today is for PCs.

Dawn Chriss

We're focused on N.C. State. The way we lost last year ...

Janet Baird

We're focused only on improving at this point,

David Thomas

We're a veteran group. We have a lot of upperclassmen with a lot of experience. I think with this team, we're more focused on not just going to the bowl, but going in and winning.

Jim Sherman

We're really focused on outfitting teams from top to bottom.

Mack Strong

We knew what we had to get done. We knew the things that had plagued us in the past were turnovers, penalties and not making the plays when we had the opportunity. We were a lot more focused today. That starts with Mike and Matt.

John Antioco

As we end one of the most challenging years for the in-store rental industry, we are focused more than ever on the overall profitability of our business.

Stan Heath

It's just one of those games that it's hard to get out of your mind. More importantly, for 40 minutes we were focused on Auburn and we didn't worry about that.

Kent Beck

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Douglas Coupland

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it

Lawrence Kahn

The words of the family's loved one were intensely private, often uttered when the caller realized he or she might not survive.

Anthony Fauci

That's why we are preparing so intensely for H5N1 as well as any other pandemic,

Kenneth Branagh

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Evangeline Lilly

I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you...' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

Michael Schiavo

We're an intensely private family. I'm a very private person.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Chris Christie

The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Bob Gibbons

No question, the No. 1 overall player is Greg (Oden).

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Dennis Kelly

We were flabbergasted by the overall size of the market. It's incredible.

Craig Drury

We got some turnovers that were big. I'm sure we got the most transition hoops, but the tempo overall was set by Orem.

Charles Hennekens

My overall reaction is that I'm pleased, because we need the data.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.

Hessam Nadji

That's the primary reason overall volume went up.

Pat Summitt

I think overall Candace had a solid game, ... I was pleased with her defense.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen up before the VOL Tournament.

John Fuchs

We're right on schedule with where we should be. I'm very pleased with how things are going.

Maurice Greenberg

We are also very pleased we could reach an amicable settlement with Prudential,

Kobe Bryant

We're pleased with the way we played. We feel good.

Brian Oxman

We're pleased with the results. It's time to get on to new and better things.

Randy King

We're pleased with the distinction, but we think there's more to do.

Chris Greene

We're pleased with our wildlife rehabilitators in this area,

Rick Ernst

We're pleased with how the project is going so far.

Jayson Ahern

We're pleased when a test like this is able to demonstrate the efficacy of our technology.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

Frederic Bastiat

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report, and that is not good.

Charles Edison

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Chester Himes

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

Charles Baudelaire

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Charles Baudelaire

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Richard Repetto

A strong quarter pretty much any way you slice it.

Ashley Tuiasosopo

It's the same thing every time we play. We like to think the third quarter is ours.

Bob Wilson

I told the team not to worry about Dewitt's shot. We were still up by two and we still had one more quarter to play.

Richard Williams

This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.

Anthony Chan

It's a wake-up call. One quarter does not make a trend, but we have to be more on our guard.

Craig Barrett

As expected, second quarter revenue reflected a seasonal slowdown,

Derek Brown

The more I delve into the numbers, the better the quarter seemed,

Charlie Trotter

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

David Wyss

The second quarter is shaping up to be stronger than expected.

Cyrus Broacha

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

Guy Tauer

All other things being equal, we should remain in that 100,000 range, or slightly above.

John Prendergast

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Rick Adams

They're in situations where they remain on our list, but that's not for the public.

Jim Peters

a recognition that runway safety should remain a top priority.

Bryan Sierra

The team that Noel put together is going to remain together. The investigation should not be impacted.

Charles de Gaulle

Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.

Bill Morrow

Terminals remain the single most important part of any proposition in Japan.

Alan Cooper

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Alaina Huffman

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

Chip Kidd

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

David Hockney

I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

David Hockney

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

David Hockney

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

David Bromstad

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Ben Whishaw

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.