Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Haynes

The Rooney Rule is doing a good job. It's a nice process, but it does not necessarily mean a commitment to diversity. I think there's a difference. Right now this is working, but there's still some pitfalls.

Alan Lightman

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will not prepare more people for baptism if we are not converting the ones we have.

Bruce Jenner

If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.

Jane Goodall

Angelina is living proof of the power we all have ù every one of us ù to make a difference. I was deeply moved by her descriptions of individual refugees struggling to live with dignity and hope, and found her personal commitment to be an inspiration.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Brian Koslow

To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments

Ron Frieson

We have a commitment from AT&T that we will continue, as we have historically, to be a very engaged partner in the community. From a culture perspective, these companies really look alike.

Dana Gioia

We felt that Random House had a deep commitment to the book.

Michael A. Stackpole

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

Sen. Marsh

The thought there is if we expanded the contract over a long period of time we would get a better rate.

Jim Forbes

This is not a contract about big wage gains.

Tim Minahan

E-procurement may have been over-hyped in the early days of the dotcom boom, but leading enterprises are now leveraging e-procurement to improve contract compliance, reduce material and process costs, and increase spend under management. These successful e-procurement deployments offer examples that can be emulated by other enterprises investigating e-procurement technology or the expansion of existing systems.

Jim Kline

There's a couple more things to work out with that, mainly with the FedEx points and where we sit with that program. We're hoping to get that contract soon, meet here and discuss what we need to do and send that right back to the tour.

Denis Smith

I spoke to Tony yesterday and he would like to come, but he was looking for an 18-month contract and with us being in administration I can't offer anything into next season.

Mike Flanagan

When we sign a contract with a vendor, laying out a specific schedule for delivery, we expect it to be met,

Doug Steenland

When the strike began, the contract was terminated.

Chris Massaro

We're looking at later dates and trying to get a multi-game contract together. I've said for a long time that this is a great series that we need to continue.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

W. S. Gilbert

The wickets will be similar to what the players will face early in the season at the SCG,

Dave Moates

That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.

Elize Du Toit

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

Chris Schultz

When you're 1-9 and down 22 at the half, it's nice to see they didn't quit. That's a good sign. I told the kids early in the third quarter that we were still in this thing. They didn't pack it in.

Bob Cook

We have incorporated the teachers into an early intervention team which visits all our nurseries up to twice a week.

Kaley Cuoco

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

Shel Silverstein

Have you been to The Land of Happy,Where everyone's happy all day,Where they joke and they singOf the happiest things,And everything's jolly and gay?There's no one unhappy in Happy, There's laughter and smiles galore.I have been to The Land of Happy - What a bore!

Josh Klinghoffer

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Charles Bukowski

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Ani Difranco

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.

Albert Einstein

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.

Deepak Chopra

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

Chuck Palahniuk

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.