Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Virgo

The solution is to limit public sector ambition to that which can be reliably delivered given the human beings available and rebuild the available UK skills base, including user management and information systems - because technology is rarely the problem.

Rob Lowe

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

Bryant H. McGill

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Alain de Botton

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Charles Babbage

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Edmund Burke

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Jon Runyan

When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn't choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it.

Ben Jonson

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

Stuart Pearce

We had a few good runs with Forest. It was a burning ambition of mine to be the captain who said to Brian Clough 'here is the FA Cup'. Unfortunately, we didn't quite manage it.

Kevin Selover

The student price is available by box office only.

Craig Mathias

Rumor is that it will be available shortly.

Bill Gates

The very interface you see is driving off role-based definitions, with a richer connection to Office than any application in the past. And we will make extensibility capabilities available broadly.

Stephen McCausland

The Web site is back on. It is there by law. The reason why the information is available to the public is well-documented.

Ken Klee

There are two points available and we need them. We can't be worried about the last time when they put it on us pretty good.

Steve Jobs

Both of these models are available starting today.

Scott Wolfson

We want consumers to be informed and know the resources available to them. We can do all this work just to do the recall and ensure we have every model covered, but if the parents still have the product lingering in their home then that's a serious concern for us.

Donna Kane

We're going to be available to take the stress out of car-buying, ... You know what? There's a change taking place in (car) consumers, and 'he' is now becoming a 'she.'

Brian Babineau

Users need to make data available to both new and old applications, especially while migrating to a new environment. Archiving in XML is a good way to do that.

Joseph Rotblat

We appeal, as human beings to human beings. Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open for a new paradise; if you cannot there lies before you the risk of universal death.

Brigitte Boisselier

I believe that we indeed have been created by intelligent beings -- those beings coming from space ..., ... Usually, people have a little smile and say, 'Well, she's crazy thinking about that.'

Liz Murray

But they can change and I should help, and they are human beings and they can do it to, but they just need that right perspective and the right programs and resources in front of them.

Michel Faber

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Norm Roberts

Gray his huge. He's one of the biggest human beings I've ever seen. But he's done a great job getting his body in shape.

Jim Calhoun

He is without question one of the toughest human beings I've ever met in my life. He's streetwise and loveable all at the same time.

Kate Millett

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

John Shanagher

He has to hear that we're human beings and that our father, son, mother, whoever, were human beings.

Jack Terry

The camp was liberated, but we as human beings were not. That was the saddest day of my life. For the first time, I thought about something other than putting food in my mouth. I realized I'm 15 years old, and I have nobody. I belong to nobody. Nobody belongs to me, and I belong nowhere.

John Varley

We have delivered what we said we would deliver, ... We have got very strong profit growth in a number of our businesses.

Ben Wagner

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Our team delivered a site that was designed under tight parameters and deadlines. It's always great to be involved in a project that will excite and embrace users.

Phil English

Clearly, NAFTA has never delivered on its promises, ... We need to redesign NAFTA so it's not a race to the bottom.

David Seibert

A lot of our supplies went to the police department because a lot of those officers lost everything they had. We delivered a lot of uniforms to those officers.

Tim Ghriskey

Its valuation means it's priced for perfection and perfection was not delivered this quarter.

Bob Williams

With software as a service and entertainment software delivered via the Internet, we're seeing interesting new Internet technologies and delivery platforms that enable these types of applications.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

David Brodsky

Everything (entitled to the defense) is not given to us,

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Andrew Friedman

We think that we're going to become intimately involved with the arbitration process given the nature of how young our roster is. The intent of the hearing is to solve differences that can't be resolved through negotiations. It's not ideal for the team or the player, but sometimes it's necessary.

Orrin Hatch

We think that this money should be given in tax relief to the American people, not spent by those know-it-alls back in Washington,

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Terry J. Lundgren

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

Clay Shirky

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Meg Wolitzer

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.

Maryann Jakubczyk

We need $200,000 roughly in donations. We will soon be putting information on our Web site as to what we need.

Mel Netzhammer

I think information is good. Getting information to the students is important.

Hans Blix

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any specific information on these images.

Billy Crystal

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

Andy Reid

We limited his reps, but the reps he was in there, he did a nice job. He worked it today (Thursday) and we've got to see if the swelling stays out.

Paul LePage

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

Constance Baker Motley

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Ray Stevens

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

Stirling Moss

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.

Marianne Williamson

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

David Packard

Management by Walking Around

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

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.

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.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Claire McCaskill

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Michio Kaku

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

Rebecca Stead

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

Brandon Boyd

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Marianne Williamson

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Diane Cilento

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Artur Davis

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Brian Van Holt

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

Eckhart Tolle

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Rush Limbaugh

The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.

Stephen Hawking

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

Roy H. Williams

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Michael Vickers

Essentially what we have is a two-country solution to a 60-country problem.

James Wolfensohn

HIPC is not a solution to poverty. HIPC is one step.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Arthur C. Clarke

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

Brian Eno

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Viktor Yushchenko

I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.

Michael Hudson

Look at Ukraine. Its currency, the hernia, is plunging. The euro is really in a problem. Greece is problematic as to whether it can pay the IMF, which is threatening not to be part of the troika with the European Central Bank and the European Union making more loans to enable Greece to pay the bondholders and the banks. Britain is having a referendum as to whether to withdraw from the European Union, and it looks more and more like it may do so. So the world's politics are in turmoil.

Nancy Gibbs

Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most.

Jake Shimabukuro

The ukulele is the instrument of peace,

Marvin Kalb

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

Ken Dulaney

You should take all user interfaces out of your applications,

Marissa Mayer

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.