Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Porter

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

Michael Porter

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.

Michael Pollan

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

James Lipton

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.

Leon Kass

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Edward Tufte

At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to pass through some presentation state.

Leland Stanford

A co-operative association designed to furnish labor for farming operations is clearly within the realm of practical achievement.

Seth Lloyd

This democratization of science, this making it public, is in a sense the realization of a promise that science has held for a long time.

Stephen Cohen

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

David Wald

We are pleased with the decisions. It clearly established the constitutionality of the Internet Registry Act.

Dave Roberts

There are clearly stated problems that we have to identify and have to uncover. The overlying theme is things that would lead to sudden incapacitation,

Rod Smyth

We're in a market that is clearly in a little short-term decision box. It's the debate whether core inflation remains low, which allows the Fed to stop raising rates, or whether core inflation is not able to be contained. We'll get a progression of data and numbers that will help resolve this somewhat, but until then, we're in the box.

Carol Marlow

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be changed, and we do regret that sincerely and clearly we do recognize there's been a lot of disruption.

Lucas Black

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Gordon Brown

We have said very clearly that not only is the rebate justified, but if in the national interest it was necessary to do so we would have to use our veto.

Charles Prince

We have said pretty clearly that our focus is on extending the franchise transactions.

Brenda Powell

The postures are designed in a specific sequence to make sure all the muscle groups are being hit, and the immune system and internal organs.

Guy Gavriel Kay

When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

Michael Unzueta

Whether they are designed to smuggle drugs, people, weapons or other contraband, these tunnels pose a threat to our nation's security.

Michael Griffin

What we're really developing is the shuttle's successor, ... The CEV is designed to go to low-Earth orbit.

Erik Lomis

We're going to make money with this picture. It was designed so that if it (grossed) $20 million or more we would do well. From what we know right now, it's going to go significantly north of that.

Ed Amoroso

AT&T ISNN is designed to help users understand potential threats and to help them better protect themselves.

Donna Mills

Abby was designed to be the troublemaker and stir things up. She wasn't evil, she was naughty.

Peter Capaldi

It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.

Georganne Arrington

It's a show that's designed just for children.

Ed Smith

They are serious farmers. This is a serious farming operation.

Eli Miller

You can't make a living on the farming anymore. There's more money in the furniture shops.

Kim Arbaugh

This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.

Randy Perreira

This is harebrained. It's inappropriate to be farming that out to the private sector.

Dolores Huerta

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

Dave Carter

Organic farming is personal.

Granth Sahib

My farming and my trading are by the Support of the Name.

Jim Riddle

Neighbors would pay the price for these farming practices.

Kirk Lewis

I was from a farming town. That (background) gave me a lot of the values that I have today.

Alexander Herzen

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Charles Dickens

At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.

Reginald Knowles

The contractors will furnish the mix and place it. We will do the flagging, signing and trucking.

Tad Williams

Never make your home in a place -- make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it -- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Mary Randolph

I think there was a lot of pride in it because of how it was built. The PTA had to furnish everything.

Steve Armstrong

I have to furnish the setback and I don't like that.

Felix Sabates

I want to be the president of the NASCAR Hispanic Society. I'll even do it for free. I'll furnish my own airplane, my own helicopter. They won't have to give me anything.

Isaac Newton

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

Guenael Rodier

We want to see the laboratory (results) before we move on. But she's likely to be a case, unfortunately.

Carlos Mencia

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

Charlize Theron

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

Roberto Heras

They told me the news at the end of October. The only thing I can think of is that it is a laboratory error,

Douglas Porter

This points out that the labor market remains as tight as ever.

Dana Johnson

They're a little disappointing if you're looking for a strong labor market, but nothing dramatic.

Alice Yip

There's a lot of prep work in the rice. Making the rice is actually the most labor-intensive part of making sushi, but it's a very important step.

Kevin Murphy

It was a short-term labor disruption. In the long run it's unlikely to be a big problem.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

George H. W. Bush

How do you feel the operations are going?

William Patterson

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dale Timmermann

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

E. O. Wilson

We think that cross-border operations would be unwise.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Bryan Gulley

It's just not practical to think that can happen.

Conor Oberst

It's kind of a practical thing to do it this way,

Dr. Agee

It's a tremendous teaching tool and it's going to give our students hands-on, practical experience.

Richard Butler

These are very practical things, very important things.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

David Eckstein

It's just a whole different realm of a leadoff man. You've got to be patient.

Edmund Hillary

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

David Frank

Nothing's out of the realm of possibility right now.

Christine Gregoire

It's completely within the realm of possibility that what they need is hospitalization,

Neil Harris

It's different, but within the realm of the sitcom still,

Ellen Hopkins

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity...

Hanna Rosin

Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Rumi

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

Prem Rawat

What you are looking for is within you

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,