Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Bob Iger

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

Desiree Rogers

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

Natalie Massenet

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

Fareed Zakaria

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

Kathy Murray

(The academy) offers brand new teachers the support they need to get through that very difficult first year. It is a brand new experience and most of what you learn in college is straight from a book. That (classroom) experience is really quite different.

Richard Hayne

The Anthropologie brand continues to succeed in emotionally engaging its customers while delivering strong financial results.

Edward Whitacre

The AT&T brand reflects what customers are looking for. They want the latest technology and services but they also want reliability, quality and trustworthiness. Only the AT&T brand offers this ideal combination of traits.

Aya Traore

That was tough losing, but we know that the (NCAA) tournament is the start of a brand new season and it's one and done from here on out. We're playing teams that we don't know and haven't played so far, so we have to stay focused this week.

Rob Stillwell

We have two very solid brands to build upon, and I think it's safe to say the casino will either be one or the other.

Sander Levin

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

Paul Harris

We were struck that the courtroom is such a great theater for ideas -- and that we couldn't think of a film that had combined the horror and courtroom genres, ... We thought we could really develop something provocative out of that: structure the movie with multiple points of view like Rashomon and weave the narrative in and out of it.

Bill Gates

Microsoft and MTV Networks have combined their strengths to dramatically redefine how Windows users discover and enjoy music.

Jon Strebe

We couldn't guard their big kid. Our inexperience in the post really hurt us, and that combined with our inability to make shots ... before you know it, we're down 20.

Vedran Pavlek

We followed the race up on the hill, we saw the course, what is necessary for the combined downhill.

Nariman Behravesh

The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effects in the economy from higher energy prices,

Sean Cotter

I think if you combined all the home runs we hit in the last seven years, I don't think it would be as many as we've hit this year.

Felix Gottwald

We're all separate -- cross-country, biathlon, Nordic combined and ski jumping.

Charli Turner

We really wanted to make them work hard and I think they got tired. They were losing the game, and with the fatigue combined it's easy to not have positive responses sometimes.

G. Hannelius

My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

John Caldwell

The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away

Ogden Nash

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Common

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

Bethany Mota

I always use dry shampoo, even if my hair isn't oily. It gives me so much texture and that bedhead vibe.

Daniel Kahneman

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

Frank R. Wolf

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Lauri Hakala

That way when the opponent thinks I'm going to hit it hard, I can tip the ball. That gives you another weapon.

Bill Self

That was a great victory by (A&M). It gives us a chance.

Primo Angeli

The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.

Phil Schiller

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Hal Stratton

We need to promote more international harmonization of the standards on product safety.

Peter Wallace

You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Meg Graham

The quality and sterility of the products made there was never in question.

Al Rauch

I think most of the biotech products are going to be safe for the rest of the decade.

Rebecca Lindland

It doesn't seem to me that now is the time to play around with product names.

Donna Rosenbaum

We really want to see some safety nets put into this system so that this product is not unleashed on unsuspecting American consumers.

C. S. Lewis

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "contemporary," "conventional" or "ruthless." Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong or stark or courageous—that it is the philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about.

C. S. Lewis

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

Catie Curtis

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

Cecelia Ahern

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Cecelia Ahern

There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s not just it. Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you fall on the ground really hard and you can’t figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying “Bold ground,” then you pick yourself up and get on with it.

Carrie Underwood

I know that music is my life. It is my strong point. That's my love.

Carrie Underwood

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

Carrie Underwood

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on.

Carl Rogers

The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.