Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Seale

Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about him was his remarkable consistency. The outside world so often said he was a mystery man, but nothing could be further from the truth. He always made his position clear.

Tom Rodriguez

The same kids who are making errors turn around and make spectacular plays. The other kids don't play consistently either. I can't get consistency from anybody. I don't know if the kids aren't focused or what. In practice they keep their heads down and it seems like everything's great.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

These results reflect an excellent fourth quarter and outstanding year for Compaq . We're very pleased with the consistency of our financial progress, especially with the improvements in earnings and the growth of gross margins to 24.4 percent in the fourth quarter.

Samresh Jung

The shooters just need to work on their consistency in order to get even better.

Stephen Rogers

I've been really streaky this season, which is one problem I think I've had. Some nights I'd have a great game. Some nights I can't make a shot if my life depended on it. Consistency is the main thing I'm working on.

Matt Diaz

I've never had a good Spring Training in the big leagues or Minor Leagues before. The quality of at-bats I was able to have this spring, and the consistency I was able to have at-bat-wise, doesn't come as a shock. But I was very pleased to make the team.

Tom Preissing

This is really what we needed. I'm praying we can get a little more consistency for the last part of the year, get a winning streak going and see what happens.

Raoul Cunningham

This governor made the process more difficult. The next may make it even more difficult. There should be consistency.

John McDonald

That's kind of the fate of this team right now. We always jump out in the first or second inning, and then the consistency isn't there throughout the rest of the innings.

Tyleen Tausaga

Our errors really killed us. We weren't really hitting at all.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Jane Austen

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Charles Bukowski

there's no defense except all the errors made

George Eliot

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Jim Patrick

Errors are killing us. We made four errors and they were crucial.

Whit Cornell

Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix.

Corey Held

We should be set and we shouldn't make errors for the next three games. We'll work on fielding tomorrow.

Jim Gardner

We had some costly errors that really hurt. Trevor pitched well enough to win in giving up only six hits, we just couldn't solve Wallace.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Paul Kenny

We held their offense to one touchdown in the first half. Things were looking good. In the second half, we lost our focus. We knew what we had to do to stop them and we would have stuck with them if we were focused in the second half.

John Steffensen

Everything I'm doing at the moment is focused towards the Commonwealth Games and running the sort of time which could help me win an individual medal.

Margo Muhlbauer

We tried to stay focused after they surprised us with their out-side shooting in the first quarter.

Tiffany Patrick

This team has learned to play as a team. Regardless of whether we're up or down, we keep our heads up. We just looked to go out strong tonight.

Elizabeth Campbell

We just had to keep our heads up and not quit.

Michelle Williams

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Katie Douglas

Obviously, our thoughts are with her, but at the same time, the show must go on. We just have to pick our heads up and know that with or without Lindsay, we?re going to have to do our best.

Muriel Spark

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.

Allan Ray

Most teams would go, 'Oh, man!' and have their heads down. We just looked at it like it's just another obstacle we have to overcome.

Unknown

May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched.

Paul Hewitt

My first year at Siena, my first year here, they were teams that people looked at and were scratching their heads thinking, 'How are they ever going to win a game?'

P. J. Harvey

I think so. They seem to have their heads wither they need to be.

Rodman Philbrick

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Ron Scott

As a kindergarten teacher, I feel secure having her here. These kids are young, and they rely on her.

Al Martin

People up here liked the quieter versions. But kids would like the rock 'n' roll version.

Harold Chitwood

Our shots would not go down and we were down by 10 at the half. In the second half, they were too much for us. They were quicker than us and they had a lot of kids to keep running at us.

Hal Sparks

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

Jimmy Tubbs

Other kids were taking shots, they were just not making them.

Justin Trudeau

People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.

Brooks Bollinger

No question about it, this program needed this so bad. Especially for the young kids to point this program in the right direction.

John McKinney

Normally we have 40 to 50 kids competing.

June Daugherty

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Brian Tracy

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Carl von Clausewitz

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Calvin Coolidge

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

Alain de Botton

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Alain de Botton

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

LeAnn Rimes

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

Gary Thomas

This is overreaction. It won't make a difference. They'll turn 18, but they'll still be inexperienced.

Steve Foster

this could turn into another Waco ... we don't want to get into that.

James Tate

We did make a turn for the better at some point.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Antonin Scalia

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Chan Gailey

Don't you think they should have to turn off their TV sets?

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.