Famous Quotes & Sayings

We remain confident in our ability to consistently achieve annual double-digit earnings per share growth over the long-term, with a 12 percent average annualized target through 2004,

We remain confident about Guidant's ability to rebuild ... market share. But that rebuilding will involve time, resolve and resources,

We remain concerned about the company's ability to stem the continued decline in profitability and credit protection measures.

Adam Gollner

We respect Band Aid's ability to raise so much money for relief efforts, but their lyrics seem so misguided and inappropriate. Africa isn't a land 'where nothing ever grows' and 'no rain nor river flows.' And how are lines such as, 'Well, tonight, thank God it's them instead of you' supposed to be helpful?

We're going to need to be careful if, in the future, we use MRI brain scans as a measure of ability in any selection process.

We're going to have a good front line and hopefully that does a lot for our offense and defense. For the first time we will be able to control the net. Our offense will get the ability to hit it over the blocks.

We're going to get the kids out and test their ability in different activities and have fun doing it. We want to be getting the kids involved in different activities. It's not based on teams, you just go out there and do the best you can do.

We're going to first focus on providing the fastest execution with the most functional site we can offer. That will include news, the ability to get real-time quotes and solid price chart histories on equities and mutual funds,

Jimmy Wales

What we're hopeful to see is that by slowing that down to 1,500 a day from several thousand, the people who are monitoring this will have more ability to improve the quality. In many cases the types of things we see going on are impulse vandalism.

What this gives is the basic ability to partition servers.

What this event really impacted was the school's ability to compete in the scientific community.

When we do, we will investigate to the best of our ability that complaint and then we will answer that complaint hopefully as quickly as we reasonably can.

When we deliver the service, we've got some just incredible loyalty among our clients. The fact of the matter is, I'm immensely disappointed in our ability to go out and sell the service.

Don Shula

When we got them together for the first time on the field, ... and had Woodley throwing on one side to a group of receivers and Marino on the other, it was so evident the ability Dan had throwing the football. Woodley was an athlete playing quarterback and Marino was a quarterback playing quarterback. You could just look at it and see, even in the simplest passing drills, that Marino had that great skill.

Tony Greig

When we got over the nastiness, if you like, of the battles associated with world cricket, he had this ability to fix the problems and then became the great ally of Cricket Australia, which I think said a bit about him.

Herman Edwards

When we first watched him in college, we knew he was an athletic guy who could make plays. We liked his ability to play in space. We always felt that that he was getting better and better, so we liked him from the beginning. (He's) become a pretty great player for us, a good sub guy that really can play all three (linebacker) positions.

What a force. Her jumping ability is tremendous. Her instincts for the ball are tremendous. Once she gets a shot, watch out.

What have gotten us here are our defense and our ability to hang in there rebounding the ball, despite our small lineup.

Anne Sweeney

What hasn't he done for prime time is more the question. I think he has brought a strong new creative spirit and the wonderful ability to take chances back to network prime-time television.

We found that people who ate fish one or more times a week had 13 percent slower decline in thinking ability over time, ... People who rarely eat fish have a somewhat faster decline in their thinking ability over time.

With Tom, we can look to control the puck and set our forwards up more quickly. His ability to score gives the rest of our offense more open looks.

Bernard Ebbers

With this merger, WorldCom accelerates by 12-to-18 months our ability to provide world-class managed Web and application hosting services -- one of the highest growth markets in the industry,

With this additional funding in place, we hope to conclude some of the acquisitions that are currently under discussion. Our record revenues last year were primarily the result of five acquisitions made in 2005. These funds will also give us the ability to expand our national sales force, which should strengthen our new-client enrollment program and enhance our organic growth.

Lee Strasberg

Work for the actor lies in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

Woodall's ability to get out of the pocket and make plays and get rid of the ball is what concerns me the most. We have to start with the containment of him.

We're starting to let AOL members know about this opportunity now to strongly encourage them to improve their online experience with a better, faster Internet connection. AOL is committed to offering our members the best high-speed experience - not just faster dial-up but true broadband from a cable or DSL connection. We've seen in recent market tests that our members respond very strongly to the ability to more simply combine what they have from AOL with what they want from a broadband connection, and now we're going to deliver it from coast to coast.

We've got experience coming back, we've got some solid players and I'm really looking for this team to do some good things this season. I really think we have the ability to get back where we were last year, but it's still a waiting game. We'll have to see how everything works out, and that takes a little time.

We've got a strong group of referees who constantly push each other to be at their best so it's a tribute to Tim's ability that he has earned the appointment ahead of all others.

We've got a month, thank goodness, and a summer, so I think he'll only get better with time. The ability is there; the polish and feel will come with due time.

We've tried to raise the bar in our ability to analyze marketing investment and understand the attributes of leaders.

Nick Saban

We've tried to make a plan on how we would operate if we do have an agreement, how it would that impact our ability to make improvements to the team. All we can do is manage the situation the best we can.

Benjamin E. Mays

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

Milton Glaser

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.