Famous Quotes & Sayings

In terms of what we asked the kids to do, the plan we had for competing with a team like this, they did a great job. Effort gets you the ability to compete, but if we want to take it to the next level, we need more than one or two scoring threats on the floor. These seniors laid a nice foundation. Now it's up to the juniors to take it from here.

Ari Fleischer

In Texas, Gov. Bush has a proven record on his ability to work in a bipartisan fashion to enact a patients' bill of rights, to increase funding and resources for education and achieve the two biggest tax cuts in the history of Texas.

In terms of possession and scoring opportunities created we did extremely well. Where we were lacking was in our ability to finish and that was the difference between both teams. Seba created opportunities and scored. We created numerous opportunities and did not score.

In the big games, he wants to show up. D-Jack is so consistent in his playmaking ability. ... They thought they could play him one-on-one and you can't do that to this team.

John Perry

In performing its assessment, AmbironTrustWave scrutinized every aspect of our operations. AmbironTrustWave audited the security of our network, the steps that our 110 employees take to safeguard cardholder data, our vulnerability management program, our information security policy and our ability to regularly monitor and test our network.

If you run (the offense) right, there's so many things that we can get into. Even in the offensive breakdowns, we have the ability to read each other and know it's not good to stand around on offense. Even if you do go to the wrong spot, just do it as hard as you can and something good can come out of it.

If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right.

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened

If you want good people to be in those places, and they are making very important decisions, you want them to have the ability to do that kind of work without the fear of personal injuries.

INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent --as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it ""a black eye."" Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's diseases.

In a dictatorship where Gadhafi controls the strings, he can make sure that the things he wants to give priority to are given money. There are no constraints on his ability to assist movements that he considers useful.

Elizabeth Dole

Inadequate funding limits the number of staff at headquarters and in key states. It restricts your ability to communicate with voters. It places a ceiling on travel and travel staff. Over time, it becomes nearly impossible to sustain an effective campaign.

In addition to totally refurbishing the public areas and guestrooms, we upgraded the major equipment and back of the house areas, and also took the opportunity to make the property as energy-efficient as possible. We added a new energy-efficient air conditioning system, new piping, new fire alarm system and reconfigured the catering space to provide more flexibility for social and small meetings. While we can't guarantee that we won't suffer any future damage during a hurricane, at this point we feel very good about the hotel's ability to withstand major storms.

In addition to their ability to generate money, these coins serve as integral markers of American history.

E. B. White

In addition to testing for analytical abilities, which current tests do, we also want to test for practical abilities such as common sense, problem solving, ability to work with people and creative abilities, because we know, especially in business, creativity is crucial to new products and service development,

In addition to having the skills to be successful on the college level, Mike has the leadership and competitive toughness that makes him such an outstanding player. Mike is a true point guard. He has tremendous vision and court awareness and has the ability to pressure the ball on the defensive end that will be a good fit in our program.

Terry Teachout

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

In a game like this you don't want to take any undisciplined penalties. He took responsibility, he didn't blame the referee. After that, his ability took over on what was just a great play.

Gary Moore

I have for some time been concerned about the amount of time this investigation is taking away from the ability to just do the job and perform for the people of Kentucky,

I had big plans for him to show what he can do. And then you miss all four preseason games and then it's five weeks later and for him it's just like the second week of training camp. Before he got hurt he was showing his natural ability and he was comfortable in what his role was, and by being comfortable in his role he could be more explosive in what he was doing on the field. But then we had that setback and we had to start all over.

Dan Rooney

I guess what all this does is determine some specific measurement that may equate to athletic ability. But it's hard to get excited if a guy doesn't play well on film.

I guess we kind of feel it's a potential setup. It chills us in our ability to prepare a defense. It's just overbearing.

I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.

Jeff Davis

I guess the big issue is whether you can sustain profit growth, and everybody's looking at certain factors that will influence the ability for companies to report -- well, for above consensus expectations -- a good report. I think commodity prices, rising interest rates, are having a lagged negative effect on some earnings of major leading corporations. It's not impacting this quarter, but probably the third and the fourth quarter. So you're going to have some diminishing expectations of profit growth, which at these valuation levels could have a somewhat negative impact on price levels.

Sarah Shahi

I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin.

If the kid has the ability to play at the next level, it is up to the coach to push that kid. I coached college ball, so I know what they are looking for.

If you allow good players time and space in which to operate then they have the ability to hurt you, as Arsenal proved against Real.

If you have a hard time caring about a kid that looks different than you, then they will have a hard time relating to you. I think the first component to building relationships is the ability to care. Most kids don't care how much you know until you show them how much you care. The first thing for me is I care about kids, and I think they see that so it makes it easier for me to relate to them no matter what they look like or what their background might be.

If you have a foundation that has given in to water pressure, not only are you allowing the structure to slide, you are changing the way it's carrying the load. It changes its ability to take the force. All the force has to be transmitted sideways to the other points on the base where the structure is still working.

Andruw Jones

If you have the love for the game, you're going to do whatever your heart wants to do. You've got the ability to play this game, take care of yourself. Look at Julio Franco. He's 47 and he's still playing.

If you have the ability to access your files remotely, you can work on them from anywhere.

Scott Rudin

If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

Frank Gifford

If you had to win a game, it's a toss-up between Steve Young, John Elway and Dan Marino, ... Steve had that one unique quality of scrambling away from pressure, John would lumber for the first down and Dan had an unbelievable arm. It was never over when Steve was on the field; he had the unique ability to do things that were almost impossible. He could lift the entire team with his ability alone.