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.

Rich Hill

To achieve the highest ranking in the school's history is something the entire USD community can take pride in.

Darmin Nasution

To achieve that, we need to have qualified rating companies.

Nancy Schlichting

To achieve that, we knew we needed to bring into our organization someone who would bring that kind of passion for service to Henry Ford Health System - someone who would help us to become known as 'The Ritz-Carlton' of health care.

Jia Qinglin

To achieve that end, we should spare no effort.

Xu Bodong

to achieve (Taiwan) independence in a peaceful way so that there will be one (separate) country on either side of the Taiwan Strait.

Alan McCoy

To achieve sustainable profits, we have to find a way to get all our costs under control.

Sathya Baba

To achieve release, man kneels before a million Gods, in frantic pain. If he but blasts the ego within the Goal is reached, he is freed indeed!

Frank Biondi

To achieve its true potential, Time Warner's culture must change to enable each of its separate business units to develop their own strategies and capitalize on their leading roles in the rapidly evolving media sector. They must not be constrained by a counterproductive bureaucracy.

Don Knapp

The whole team ran well, but with this big of a group of schools, it was not easy to make the top eight. We ran some of our fastest times to get in the top 12 to 15 teams. Some of the best Kansas City and St. Louis schools were there in addition to the best athletes from mid-Missouri. This meet was a major showcase of state-wide track talent for this early in the season.

Eric Sorensen

This is a special dividend and is in addition to the normal quarterly dividend previously announced.

Paul Wilbur

As the Craft Centre goes away, our SSR (plant) will go with it. But we have more uses for that facility as well. We are investigating some additional opportunities that are coming up with our facility.

J. J. Johnson

We will also continue to invest in capabilities to execute on our software plus services vision, including additional resource investments related to Windows Live and the Windows Live Platform. Expanding the capabilities of our Windows Live platform, extending our reach and impact with and to advertisers, continuing to enhance our search offering, and building out our operational infrastructure are critical to our long-term success.

Greg Kelly

We'll make a determination once they (completely) register students whether additional teachers need to be hired. A lot depends on how many students enter our schools system.

Wes Meier

Johnny's a great addition for us. He's a tough kid that runs the ball hard. He's got finesse, but he's also hard-nosed. He's not going to cower away from any defender. He was a great addition in that respect.

Orrin Hatch

I think the fact that he would ignore and violate a subpoena would certainly be grounds to file articles of impeachment, ... If Kenneth Starr does have additional information, I think it could snowball into a real impeachment problem for the president. I personally hope that doesn't happen.

Brad Milton

We try to make it back (to Iowa) when we can, but it's really tough to get away and get back here. The last time Brian was here was in 2000, and I haven't been here in a couple of years. It's a struggle to balance our time with relatives in addition to the Marine Corps and our own families.

Marty Adams

We are extremely excited about our opportunity in Indianapolis. You can see why anyone in the banking business would be. Our sweet spot in business is really small- and mid-market-type business lending in addition to retail banking. Indianapolis has seen a lot of growth in small businesses. That's where our growth will come from.

Richard Cobb

Currently, there's about four major refineries that supply this area that are still down.

Mark Davis

Crews worked throughout the night. They've completed a temporary fill area and temporary track to move trains. They will start building a bridge to replace the one destroyed by fire. They should have the bridge completed by midweek.

James Blake

Credit unions have a long-standing reputation for serving people of modest means. There is an increasing gap between the average family income and the cost of area real estate, and we're confident that this initiative will help to narrow that gap.

Brian Shema

Crows are what are known as colonial roosters -- they roost in a colony at night. That area in the east end near Homewood is where all of our crows, from who knows how far away, go. At times there's 20,000 crows down there.

Angela Rabke

Every area was really successful. It was a slam-dunk.

Carol Chastang

Every area in the country is subject to some kind of disaster - flood, hurricane, earthquake, to name a few. Even man-made disasters - oil spill, civil unrest, fire - can devastate the surrounding neighborhood and economy. Even though an area has never been damaged before, there is no guarantee that it will not happen tomorrow.

Rick Insell

Every area and every facet of the game where we could've made a difference, we didn't because we didn't use our heads.

Scott Schnell

Emergency' is the key word. When the entire road service area is dealing with the same conditions, it's no longer a unique emergency.

Tommy Franks

Enemy forces in this area are dug in. They're in caves. They're also in natural fighting positions,

I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory.

Iyanla Vanzant

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Ella Baker

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

Gloria Steinem

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

Harry Mathews

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

J. K. Rowling

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

H. L. Mencken

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

H. L. Mencken

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.

H. L. Mencken

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Adam DeJoode

We just had to continue to let them shoot.

Philippe Petit

When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.

Larry Coker

We have to continue to work and get better at what we do.

Kammron Taylor

We have to continue to push, not get down on ourselves and find that leadership.

Yona Metzger

We have to continue to prove that Jews and Muslims are not enemies.

Mitch Mitchell

We have to continue to protect the football,

Mark Recchi

We have to continue to play like that. Five on five we were still a better team. We just have to make sure we stay positive and stay focused and work on the things that are actually costing us games right now.

E. O. Wilson

We have to continue to play at a high level and get more turnovers. We have to be around the football and give the offense more opportunities to score points.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

J. J. Johnson

This is one of the more rewarding deployments we've been on. A lot of hard work.

Cassidy

This isn't that hard, ... It really isn't.

Tyler Palko

This isn't calculus, this isn't aeronautical engineering, there's only so many ways you can run a play. The terminology may be different, but it's not that hard to pick up. We'll be fine.

Jeff King

This is pretty cool. I worked pretty hard this year.

Matt Rubano

The way we've done everything up until this point has been really natural, and we've always equated really hard work with success. And at this point, to start looking at things any other way would be bad, because we do things in a very grass-roots way. It's all been very steady and gradual, so we're just going to stay working hard and playing shows. And I think we're ready for anything.

Sylvia Hatchell

That's why I love these kids, they play so hard for me. They play hard for each other, but I'm the coach, so I think they play hard for me, too. I'm really proud of that.

Michael Keaton

That takes a lot of guts, ... It's not hard for me to imagine having that kind of job.

Joe Gibbs

That's my responsibility and obviously we wanted to be much more productive than we were in the playoffs. That'll be one of the things we look hard at.

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Rob Janes

though it is a pity that these type of premises get targeted. Who are they damaging? It's the kids who miss out.

Brent Jennings

To have six champs in the middle, that's a lot. Those are some tough weight classes. Our kids really stepped up.

Mitchel Resnick

With 'Scratch,' we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

Eric Spina

You have to get the kids intimately involved. They can't just sit and watch or sit and listen.

Neil Roberts

We're struggling offensively. We're just trying to find the right combination using inexperienced kids that aren't, maybe, ready to go yet, and we're trying to force-feed them, basically.

Cheryl Rice

Tonight we talked about playing for our self-respect as a team. The kids responded well.

Mike McShane

Tonight, I thought we were back to where we were a month ago. I thought the kids were re-energized.

Amanda Hill

To see the kids on TV just kills us, ... We thought 'What better way to give than by using our talents?'

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Claudia Rankine

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

Claudia Rankine

The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?

Claudia Rankine

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Dalai Lama

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

Dalai Lama

In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

Dalai Lama

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

Dalai Lama

If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

Dalai Lama

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Gove

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Oscar de la Renta

My customers are successful workingwomen.

Orison Swett Marden

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.

Newt Gingrich

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Mike Oldfield

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

Evangeline Lilly

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

John Norris

Everything is on track and going very well.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Ambrose Bierce

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Ambrose Bierce

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

Ambrose Bierce

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Alice Walker

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

Alice Cary

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

Alice Cary

With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

Albert Camus

Without work all life goes rotten.

Albert Camus

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.