Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jordan

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing tosacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, inthe end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individualgoals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullestis that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accoladeswill take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork andintelligence win championships.

Vito Fossella

The United States has a responsibility to help our new allies achieve democracy and become full partners in a range of international affairs.

Lou DiBella

What a wonderful guy this was. And I've never met anybody so proud or so grateful to achieve his dream. If there's any solace to be taken in this, it's that he died doing what he loved. He died a champion.

Sarmad Zok

We will use the new money we hope to raise to help us to achieve our strategy of acquiring luxury hotels and resorts in high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Jean Todt

We will try to do a better job by trying to do the best as possible, as we always did but that simply, we did not achieve in 2005.

Dylan Moran

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Zack Space

I am looking forward to working with Congressman Hobson and Vorys Advisors to help Ohio businesses and organizations achieve their goals and objectives.

Bob Davies

We are committed to making the tough but necessary decisions to ensure the future viability of GreenMan and continue to evaluate all viable alternatives to achieve this objective with our primary focus on our southeastern operations,

Neil Portnow

We are delighted to team up with EA as a leader in interactive entertainment to provide students with the tools and instruction to create video game music and sound design, ... With a variety of career choices in the music business, we are committed to exposing students to every available opportunity in order to help them achieve their professional dreams.

Michael Rushford

You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through.

Frank Hamblen

The biggest problem we've had is penetration. We're allowing guys to get in the paint too easily. They're penetrating and pitching, and that leads to open shots.

Nick Montepara

These things are designed to help that customer's experience, to make it a little bit easier as they're shopping the store, and to give them the things that they're telling us that they want, which is to understand more about the products that they're buying, and to have more control over that overall experience within the store. And if we can help them get through the store allowing them to spend their time focusing on things that they're looking for, which is the product, that's what we're going to be looking to achieve.

Dave Anderson

These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy. The Freedom Museum is designed to inspire people to understand and value their freedoms. The Freedom Museum will present freedoms in not merely a historical context, but in modern day examples, allowing people young and old to relate to modern day freedom debates.

Tracey Hammel

It's tough to try to remain undefeated all year, have the pressure of being No. 1 and trying to stay focused after winning the sectional. I think our seniors did a great job of allowing the season to be what it was.

Richard Neuhaus

Allowing people to choose that they don't wish to live creates a circumstance in which death itself comes to be viewed as a 'good,' so you have a 'right to die,' ... And then we move quite logically to asking about the person who is not in a position to request this 'good' called death.

Clyde Evans

Allowing him to do what he wants to do opens up the gate for things we don't want. The thing I'm struggling with is the outside display.

Stan Taylor

Allowing both hospitals to go forward without litigation is in the best interest of the community.

Mark Jackson

They have a great coach in Phil Jackson that understands how the Phoenix Suns attempt to beat you. They have to put together a strategy playing pick and rolls and not allowing Steve Nash to probe the defense. I think Phil Jackson will ultimately do that.

Sri Chinmoy

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

Paul Cavalluzzo

The commission had little appreciation of how much information would be subject to national security confidentiality claims,

Jacob Bronowski

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

John C. Maxwell

If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.

Laura Hillenbrand

Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated,

Gary Chapman

What is emotional intimacy? It is that depp sense of being connected to one another. It is feeling loved, respected and appreciated, while at the same time seeking to reciprocate. To feel loved is to have the sense that the other person genuinely cares about your well-being. Respect has to do with feeling that your potential spouse has positive regard for your personhood, intellect, abilities and personality. Appreciation is that inner sense that your partner values your contribution to the relationship.

Friedrich Schiller

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

George Foreman

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Peter Costa

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Rich Williams

Everyone wants to do the first one. You do it right the first time, runners will keep on coming back.

Lynn Franco

As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead. While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.

Fabrice Santoro

At one point, it's great that it's coming so late. I've been playing since I was 16, and when your first quarterfinal arrives at 33, it's a long time.

Marty Simmons

At that point, you could just see the life coming back into our bodies.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Tom Hanks

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Charles Figley

I guess in Jacksonville, residents are responding quite differently than South Florida residents because they have not been through a direct hit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Tony Fabrizio

There is a growing, deep-seated discontentment and pessimism about the direction of the country.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

Eric Shinseki

I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions, where I speak to the veterans membership. I do travel. I've been to all 50 states. When I do, I engage veterans locally. So I get direct feedback from those veterans.

Colm Meaney

Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't have handled it. I didn't want that direct connection.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.