Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

Paul Fireman

The overall industry outlook is not improving in the short term, and the economic conditions in Asia Pacific and Latin America continue to negatively impact our business, ... The domestic market is suffering from heavy promotions at retail, which is affecting our performance. And the well publicized conditions in Japan and Korea, our two largest markets in the Far East, has caused reported sales to decline approximately 50 percent when compared to last year.

Noreena Hertz

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

David Mellem

The AMT is an entirely different way to calculate your taxes, and it's not really an alternative, as the name suggests. You have no choice. And it's affecting more and more people all the time.

Shahid Afridi

The amount of cricket being played these days is too hectic for me and I felt playing both forms was affecting my performances. Doing well in the World Cup and helping my team win is my main priority now.

Philip James

We have truly a global epidemic which appears to be affecting most countries in the world.

Marc Lasry

I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a large number of institutions who are going to fail, then that ends up affecting the system.

Matt Robus

We have to have very good information to sustain these projects. In order to get a program in effect and sustain it and defend it, we need to know what the predator-prey relationship is and what it's doing. We need to know how the control program is affecting bears and wolves. We need to know what happens after the program ends.

Paul Singer

Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.

Alessia Cara

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

Jason Wong

We're still looking for an easing later this year.

Harvey Rosenblum

The rapid easing of monetary and fiscal policy this time around should enable the economy to return to positive growth more quickly than usual and with lower interest rates and inflation than during the 1990s expansion.

Ruth Lea

We look for a further easing of monetary policy -- but not this month because of sterling's weakening and the stronger stock market.

Beat Siegenthaler

If the election period passes smoothly and the inflation picture remains benign, further easing is not excluded.

Tohru Sasaki

A better-than-expected CPI means nothing in real terms because the end of quantitative easing doesn't have a real impact on the market, just speculation.

Tom Williams

It's been easing up the last three or four days. The market's been showing some kind of downside... I don't know if it's going to maintain, though.

Tim Bowring

The news will be frowned on by the Reserve Bank, which has yet to see a sustained easing in the housing market.

Tetsuya Miura

The yields in the short and midterm sectors have risen to levels that start to price in a possible end to zero-interest rates, as well as the end of the quantitative easing policy.

Sam Sorich

Those factors are weighed appropriately because they're a good predictor of loss.

Joseph Wise

Basically, I'm a juggler. I can put many factors in order, aligning people, processes and money.

Bill Belichick

If a player has a lot of longevity and production, you're looking at two factors -- skill and durability,

Peter MacKay

for the simple reason that I love Nova Scotia. That's my home. It's where my family is and my heart ... so that always factors in.

Ryan Leniski

If it comes down to just soccer, we feel pretty good about our chances, that we can pretty much play with anybody. But you have unknown factors in a game, be it officials, crowds, other players. Those are things you gotta be smarter about, mature about, and still play within what we say we're going to do.

Robert Waters

I think it's a combination of factors like fuel prices.

Quinn Pitcock

It comes down to really guessing the right play at the right time. The defense, the will and then raw talent. Those are really the true factors when it comes down to it.

David Sims

He had a paucity of risk factors for having an event,

Anthony Chan

There are a lot of good factors out there.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Lee H. Hamilton

We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.

David Ball

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

Joe Johnson

We have a global Navy, and we're not going to restrict where the system will be deployed. It could be worldwide.

Tim Laatsch

We have to look at us as a global entity.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Kevin Lowery

We're a global company. We need people who understand global issues.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Carl Rogers

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Matt Kelmon

The 30 percent revenue growth days, I think we might have just have seen them top out. Now they have to take what they've got and see how they can leverage it.

Ronald Dollens

The acquisition of CTS, its innovative products and strong pipeline, will provide a platform for Guidant's growth in cardiac surgery.

Mike Edwards

We have also experienced steady growth in intellectual property and patent activities.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Mark Siegel

We've made progress, but obviously the work is not done.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

David Bear

We haven't seen it, but obviously we will review it.

Matt Holliday

We can't get all tight because we haven't scored that many runs or whatever. It's just three games. Obviously today was not what we want the rest of the season to be like so you just try to turn the page on this one pretty quick.

Jim Garvin

It has obviously precipitated a lot of interesting thinking in our science community.

Hines Ward

I thought he was going to be here, but obviously he's not. It's sad. I don't think it had to come to this. ... I've got to prepare like we're going into the season right now without Plax; we don't know what is going to happen.

Carl Pope

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

Carl Pope

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Lynn Reaser

Today was a relief rally; it was an oil price relief story,

Michael Foster

I think more people need to be doing it. There's a lot of oil that's going to waste pretty much.

Jeffrey Rubin

We'll get there on the back of rising oil prices.

Mike Erfert

You do know you've got a vehicle down there, so you know there's oil and gasoline.

Scott Davis

I wish there were just a big pool of oil all around the world, and we could just tap into it. It doesn't work that way.

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Jeffrey Passel

The picture we get is that of young, working families.

Jonathan Crisp

The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid.

Gene Scott

The picture is important because it tends to verify what he was saying about what happened.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Ken Zipovsky

We received reports from many sources that inappropriate pictures were being taken.

Randy Price

I find pictures of driver's licenses, pictures of Social Security cards.

R. Robinson

His picture is up everywhere. His presence is everywhere.

Harry Conover

We then get a better picture of the situation and are able to look at what we have written in our plan.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Kim Parker

That will be a big start all over for us, but you've got to start somewhere,

Neil Thompson

That way we have something to start with if you do go missing.

Linda Flohr

We have a must-win on Saturday, so that is what we are going to start working on.

Scott Jones

We were handicapped from the start from our own error.

Olivier Martinez

We were going to start working on it after the tour was over,

Paula Abdul

You are 16, and from start to finish, you are a star.

Mario Andretti

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Pontius Pilate

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Dick Hill

You can always find Curtis, whether it's the Jeep or the Big Bird.

Kevin Lowe

Whether I can get it done is another question.

Bill Smith

Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.

Martha Stewart

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

Cary Finberg

Whether you win by one-point or 20, it doesn't matter. You still get the title.

Jim Lehrer

Whether you're 9 or 90, you can play this game.

Hugh Shelton

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.