Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Cannon

We're here now. We have a home, and we're finally relieved to know we have a set schedule for now and know what we're going to do next. We have somewhere to call home and we appreciate Louisiana Tech and Ruston for opening their arms to us.

Brian Tracy

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Hubie Brown

We're 30 years older now, so you can go back and appreciate things a lot more, ... It's made for a wonderful year.

David Krings

The people I work with are nice people, and they seem to appreciate what I am doing.

Billy Thornton

Critics have been very, very good to me -- there are only two or three of them that really hate me, really bad. I really appreciate this award, because you're fun folks.

Dee Tvedt

We like to stay on top of things, and when we're out on patrol, we tend to be the first to hear about new businesses about to open and the first to meet a new puppy. People will often tell us they appreciate our presence, and that they feel safer when we're around.

Todd Lewis

Even some of my goals this year, I fell a bit short on a couple. I think that makes you appreciate hitting your goals. I think if you hit every one of your goals, they're not high enough.

Eric Sahl

While we are working hard to negotiate a fair contract with Lifetime Television, we must also protect our customers from outrageous rate increases. We appreciate the relationship we have had with Lifetime over the past 10 years and we hope they will reconsider their position and return their channels to our customers.

Stephanie Lee

While we appreciate that the president was very respectful throughout the meeting, we feel like he needs to get to know our program a lot more before he can make a well-educated decision and that to rush it would be unjust and uninformed.

Tammie Adair

The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.

Ayn Rand

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

James E. Faust

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

Kourtney Kardashian

I know that, for me, I need to try to cover myself while breastfeeding so that no one snaps a picture. If this wasn't the case, I probably wouldn't mind as much because my son is my biggest concern. My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.

Jason Bateman

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Janet Jackson

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

Conor McGregor

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

Chris Evert

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Robert Phillips

Coke is down because of disappointing earnings and lackluster second-half estimates, ... Everyone is eagerly awaiting the new CEO's business plan.

Tamika Catchings

Coming of losses to good teams - Connecticut and Washington -- we knew we needed this one. We want homecourt for the playoffs and that means we have got to take care of business at home or on the road.

David Smith

Developing online presence tools is a strategic move, with more businesses showing an interest in hosted share-points, for example. The company's strategy is to extend its business software offerings to Web platforms.

Kathy Sierra

Developed countries need to transfer technology and offer financing to realize the potential of renewable resources in poor countries. This makes good business sense. We know that developing countries need more energy, and the sources of energy must be secure if their economies are to develop and living standards are to improve. Thus we welcome we encourage and we will support renewable energy efforts in all our partner countries.

Alan Oster

Despite improvements in confidence and still reasonable sales, the results suggest that business is still reluctant to increase hiring.

Anthony Thompson

deteriorates markedly further from here, and threatens the strong business investment outlook.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Kevin Tynan

This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005.

John Breaux

This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to.

Bobby Ross

Zac is turning some difficult plays into big plays.

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

Karen Lee

Curtis had been hospitalized on and off for the past six months. Nine months ago his right leg was amputated. Living as a quadriplegic was an extremely difficult experience -- but he kept going.

Sha Zukang

Controlling tobacco is a long-term, difficult and complicated public health task, it is also a social and economic issue that needs a strong policy.

Annie Lennox

Even in the '80s when people were gay, it was still difficult for them to come out, whereas nowadays, 20 years on, I think, um, we have a far more open-minded society that embraces the notion of homosexuality, and I think there was this doubt about my gender, you know, and at the time it possibly was controversial but... they missed my message, if you see what I mean, because for me it wasn't about a sexual issue, it was more of a feminist thing.

Barton Seaver

We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

Bill Gates

We don't think there'll be a huge swing to one model at the expense of the other.

Sherwood Schwartz

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

Toye Taylor

I'm looking for quality of life, non-recurring expenses for these funds.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Pat Riley

We don't want to go through what we went through last year. My whole thing is about maintenance right now, but not at the expense of complacency.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around.

Ron Paul

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Rob Smith

We think it's an appropriate step to take to protect the integrity of our products and the safety of our patients here in the U.S. and Canada.

Thomas Hardy

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Thomas Frank

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

Victor Kiam

Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out of it unless the other party fails to deliver as promised. Your handshake is your bond. As far as I'm concerned, a handshake is worth more than a signed contract. As an entrepreneur, a reputation for integrity is your most valuable commodity. If you try to put something over on someone, it will come back to haunt you.

Stephen Covey

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

Stephen Covey

The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.

Stephen Covey

The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Stephen Covey

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Palle Pedersen

In Iowa, we have a 32,000-an-acre plant population, spray, and harvest. There is no in-season management. It's all in the seeds.

Dave Williams

I want to show my new manager I can pitch and show my new teammates I can pitch. That's what I'm worried about, just showing them I can win games. Everything else is really minor.

Diane Crews

They work with us to manage the operations of the terminal.

Sam Bhavnani

It's an uphill battle, but they seem poised to be able to do it. And the reason I say that is they have a strong management team in place.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Anthony Daniels

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Tony Robbins

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Tony Robbins

Quality questions create a quality life.

Tony Robbins

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Richard Branson

Quality brands never go bankrupt.

Ron Kind

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Romany Malco

It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.

Rosa DeLauro

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.