Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Porter

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

Michael Porter

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.

Michael Pollan

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

Edward Tufte

At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to pass through some presentation state.

Seth Lloyd

This democratization of science, this making it public, is in a sense the realization of a promise that science has held for a long time.

Stephen Cohen

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.

Benjamin Mays

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Betty Dodson

It was so astonishing for women to sit there looking at images of female genitals. When we took those photographs, I got body rushes.

Roger Babson

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Bill Gates

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Michael Greenberger

This may simply be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Smedes Rose

There's a lot of musical chairs going on.

Chris Bell

A revenue-neutral proposal is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Jeanette Morrisett

Pull out your table and chairs and get the grill going, then just sit back and wait for people to wander over to you. We've met so many wonderful people over the years that way.

Rainlove Lampariello

We went through like three or four. We just really wanted to get the chairs right.

Beth Wood

Everything we have today is donated. We have men with charcoal grills, we have tables and chairs donated. We have foods, drinks.

Ani Difranco

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Robert Green Ingersoll

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Dickens

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Charles Dickens

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

Charles Dickens

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

Charles Dickens

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

Sylvia Forster

We wanted to turn around their eating habits. They have horrible eating habits.

Bob Saget

I'm completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated.

Pat Williams

Wow, ... I started eating better, started watching my weight, anything I could do to keep me safe.

O. J. Simpson

They get a lot from eating each other. Mormon crickets are walking packages of protein and salt.

Ned Yost

It's not easy; it's hard. You've got to get into good eating habits and good conditioning habits early. If you don't, it can get away from you. This is real important for his career.

Julie Schablitsky

They didn't survive by eating each other; they survived by being resourceful.

Linda Lewis

They are doing well. They're perking up and eating well. They don't run from us any more. We can hand feed them carrots. I think they are all going to recover.

Daniel Fletcher

There's a lot of good eating experiences you may have had in your life that you wouldn't think were as good if you read the label.

Heidi Klum

At least she's eating better things than macaroni and cheese.

Adam Coe

We were trying to make some noise. I told them that noise would get him rattled.

Edwin Way Teale

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise.

Jan Panek

There was a terrible noise then the roof collapsed.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent

John McFarlane

This is somebody who's got a product, and is trying to make noise out of nothing. This is stuff that we do day to day.

Bill Hybels

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

Bill Hybels

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

Don DeLillo

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Michael Buckley

We're scheduled to go (today); no problems with the spacecraft. We'll see how the weather goes.

Manju Warrier

Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.

Christian Niccum

They were having some problems there, and sometimes when you are having problems in a curve, it makes you second-guess yourself. In this sport, you have to just do it. You can't be second-guessing yourself at all.

Jeffrey Loria

They're telling us we have to solve our problems here.

Erik Morales

It's OK. He can say what he wants. I have no problems with him.

Ellen Monrad

It's the centerpiece for problems on Queen Anne.

Justin Horowitz

There was no respect anymore. Little problems just got too big all the time.

Rashad Anderson

There will be a lot of mismatch problems. But I think our mismatches are better.