Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliene Berk

Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Jamie Retterath

What Microsoft liked about us was that we'd done a lot of image collection. They also liked the precision of our system ? we can make very precise maps and image location from that ? we also have a very long list of patents that we've acquired over the years that deal with efficient processing of that imagery and turning it into meaningful content.

Jonathan Williams

There is a difference between the illicit trade, a position the museum has taken a stance on, and of things that were acquired or removed under different times and circumstances.

Charley Casserly

We're pleased to have acquired him. The reason we targeted him on the first day of free agency was because we thought he was a good young talent.

Robert Murphy

We are extremely pleased to have acquired this government contract as it demonstrates that MSSI continues to successfully execute its business plan. This latest contract will not only generate significant revenues for the Company, but it will give MSSI even more credibility when pursuing future government contracts.

Bob Gibson

It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift. It is something that was given to me -- just like the color of my skin.

Bob Apodaca

He's going to be a Major League pitcher -- we caught lightning in a bottle when we acquired this guy.

Bruce Bochy

He's been consistent and it looks like he's gotten in the groove. He's helped solidify this rotation, and I can't say enough about the job he's done since we acquired him.

Rick Sund

He's been a tremendous asset for the Sonics, both on and off the court, since we acquired him in 2003.

Keira Knightley

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

Kristin Degnan

Knitting is one of the fastest growing crafts in the business.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Scott Auderer

I would say, mentally, our guys are stepping it up. We're not changing anything in our approach. It's business as usual. We're going to work to improve things here and there.

Roger Warren

Joe has developed an exceptional track record in creating and marketing a wide variety of programs and services for PGA members and the golf industry, ... Most importantly, he has a dynamic vision for the future of the PGA and our leadership position in the game and business of golf.

S. Walker

I suspected something like this might happen, yes. It?s not malicious. I think the Eagles just made a good business decision and Corey made a good business decision, too.

Steve Lyons

I think it's a big danger for the industry. I don't think it's a healthy way to run the business long-term.

Malcolm Smith

I think it really indicates a vote of confidence in the event, and that designers see it as a viable option to market their collections, to get business and to reach the international stage.

Matt Blamey

He continues to run with the team and we hope to have him back for the last couple of weeks of the season, in time for districts.

Penny Circle

He continues to respond to treatments and is improving every day.

Chris Thomas

Having a friend like Mike has been a blessing. He kept me on the right track as a youth and continues to be a good friend to me even today.

Dan Ronayne

Harold Ford Jr. continues to forget that he represents the people of Tennessee and not the celebrities of New York and Hollywood.

Charles Smulders

It continues to be a very difficult market, and until we see an economic upturn, we should continue to expect that to be the case.

Brett Gallagher

It continues to be a tug of war with all of the uncertainty going on with respect to the Middle East,

Hugh Johnson

It confirms that as we started the fourth quarter the economy continues to slow, ... At the same time that the economy is slowing, there is ongoing tightness in the labor markets and ongoing upward pressure on wages.

Alan Skrainka

I think the market remains hypersensitive to these (economic) reports. You should stay focused on your long-term goals and not short-term economic reports, but the market continues to be dominated by fear, uncertainty and confusion.

David Beard

I think the market is saying that the Dow has been flat for a year. If you look at the Nasdaq, it's up 40 percent year to year. And so the Nasdaq is going to correct probably quicker than the Dow, or the Dow will tread water, while the Nasdaq continues to come in.

Justin Duberman

Jaime will sign an NHL contract this summer. He doesn't have anything signed yet but it's not an issue.

Carlo Ancelotti

I would say it's impossible because I have a contract with Milan which I'm trying to respect.

John Antil

He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help you. Right now is if I had a contract with him, I'd be thinking about using him more.

Andy Pafko

He just put the contract on the table and said, 'Would you mind signing?'

Willie Randolph

He'll be here in a couple days -- it might even be tomorrow, ... There's nothing in his contract about it. We just told him we wanted him back. We want him to come back and help us.

Ray Yeakley

Guys who are now testing positive for hepatitis C more than likely contracted it in the 1980s or late 1970s when it wasn't understood what hepatitis C was.

Terry Ryan

He's creative. He finds ways to get contracts done.

Rod Marinelli

I was disappointed when it happened to me and I'm disappointed for Joe now. But he did sign a contract and he knew this could happen from the very beginning.

Rick Brinkley

Whatever is the most important to you needs to be very specific, laid out in writing in the contract at the time you sign that contract.

Curtis Stinson

Kansas has talent, but we have talent, too. We didn't play and execute like we should have and they did.

Guillermo Diaz

It hurts, you know? At the end, we just didn't execute what we wanted to. They kept playing. They kept fighting. They're a good team, but it's disappointing, because we had the lead for most of the game.

E. O. Wilson

We just have to get it done no matter how long we're out there. Big plays can kill you, man. That's why you have to execute on every down. You do all that work, and then they hit a big play on you. That can't be how we do things.

Robert McCullum

I thought the last 3 or 4 minutes there in the first half is when things kind of got away. We had four or five consecutive possessions where we didn't execute well." ()

Rich Irr

I think it's the same every year. You have to play well, you have to execute on all fronts come the playoffs. I don't think it's any harder because you're trying to repeat or do it for the first time. You have to play well.

Rod Thorn

Lawrence has a track record here. Nobody works harder. He has terrific game plans. We just need to execute our plans better and play better. Lawrence can't go out and play for guys.

Bret Reedy

I just think offensively the whole night we weren't in sync. We took quick shots, we took long shots and we didn't execute defensively.

Cathy Inglese

In these games, it's not about being an underdog. It comes down to one game and who's going to execute their game plan.

Tom Izzo

I'm more disappointed how we played in the first half. It kind of set the tone for the game. In the second half, we probably outplayed them in every facet of the game. ... We just didn't execute in the last three minutes.

Matt Grow

Just like everyone, we are growing. And we are growing extremely fast.

Stan Ross

Kaiser does a great job with communicating to his defense, really showing experience. Kyle sees the outside shot extremely well and has come in from day one and competed for time.

Ron Niekamp

Jordan is a big concern, but they have a lot of other guys who have stepped up as well. They play extremely hard and are a very disciplined team.

Georgi Parvanov

I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Chris Gratton

It can be extremely frustrating. It's tough to start out like that.

Rich Phillips

He was a fine young man. I'm extremely proud to say I'm his uncle.

Jacques Rogge

He is sleeping extremely well and I am sleeping extremely well.

Ned Yost

He knows what he's doing and knows what he wants. He grew up in this game and knows the game extremely well. I think he still has to work on his defense, but he will play every day.

Bill Gates

had extremely radical views and weren't interested in seeing a settlement.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

Paulla Solar

He offered her the opportunity to walk on and in the future there could be the possibility of a scholarship. She is leaning in that direction.

Eric Albright

I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to handle that mentally. It's a challenge, but I think he's up to it.

Paul Swangard

You want to be using the off-season to generate momentum. And nothing has happened, from the stadium issue on down, to give much acceleration to that momentum. For every step forward, it seems like they've taken two steps backward.

Tom Mullins

It's a manufacturer that has international ownership structure, and this project would generate just over 500 jobs, but they're still looking at a number of places in Texas and in surrounding states. It's a laundry list for that and the others at this point.

Rob Blake

That second period, as much time as we spent in our own zone, it was tough to generate things.

Robert Struble

All the pressures are related to development. More people need more water. They generate more water. They generate more storm water. All of those things can be managed. All of those problems have solutions, but some ways are better than others.

Ron Campbell

As you generate more sales tax, you can take some of that back into the machine and grow what you have.

Ann Muscat

A lot of people don't know there's a nonprofit conservation group that's responsible for the majority of Catalina ... and has to generate its own revenues.

Robert Crowder

A lot of governments would love to have an industry come in that would generate that kind of income.

Oliver Friedrichs

It really generates a lot of network traffic. It's really just going to slow down Internet performance.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Howard Pearce

There is no guarantee there won't be a return to military government

Bill Clinton

. . . the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.

Douglas Kirkland

Respect and mutual respect are important. I, for instance, often show my latest work so that people can see how I work.

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Thomas Morabito

They've been turning around for years now, and right now they're embarking on the latest phase of the turnaround.

Julie Hall

This latest news strongly suggests that the window is getting smaller with each passing day.

Elizabeth Thornton

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Bobbi Brown

During the week my alarm wakes me up at 6 A.M., so the latest I can sleep on Saturdays is about 7 A.M.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Lawrence Dallaglio

Well, the latest news is that things are going as expected,

Patrick Lawler

What we saw is a modest slowdown in our latest quarterly data, but in the past we've seen slowdowns of this magnitude completely reverse in short order.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Tyrone Willingham

I have been very, very pleased with the play that we have received from Isaiah,

Jean Prahm

I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.

Nelson McCullough

I'm real pleased with the way we're stealing. We're aggressive." ()

Annika Sorenstam

I'm more than pleased and today I feel great.

Gary Locke

These are the win-win opportunities we here in the U.S. should be pursuing in China.

Moira Kelly

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Chris Evans

I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.