Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

the way that people register, the way that people vote and to guarantee that when their votes are cast that they'll be counted accurately and to make sure that we don't discriminate against voters who might be poorer or live in a precinct that has a bad system.

That's too late for us to be able to make promotion decisions in grades 3, 5 and 7, to accurately identify students who have to be invited to the Summer Success Academy.

Hal Varian

I was a little surprised. I expected this to be accurate because there's a lot of literature and experience with these systems. But this has been even better than I expected.

It will be very similar to how the district responds to hurricanes. We'll look at the district communication network and make sure we have accurate information.

It won't at all be an accurate gauge of what people will see next season. We want to have a good afternoon, not get anybody hurt and give these young guys a chance to play. But it won't be an indication of anything, really.

It will take the experts many, many months before they will determine the accurate number, but I am sure that in the end their number will be close to what we have predicted. Stardust was very successful beyond all expectation in all its phases.

Mike Smith

they can't make accurate hurricane forecasts - and neither can I.

Haley Barbour

They are unconfirmed but likely are accurate and likelier to go up when we take in the other counties,

It wasn't a nice thing to say or completely accurate ... It was bad form,

It's more relevant than common stats. They are more accurate in describing how a team plays.

It's almost like a managing a salary cap in football. You only have so many dollars to work with and you really have to make it count. Sometimes that means not being able to offer much to some wrestlers who are really good, and it also means we have to be pretty accurate when we do make a big commitment to a wrestler.

We are confident a review of the facts will show that our company made a decision not to enter into a long-term formal relationship with Leon County after a thorough examination of our previous working relationship with the county. We did not believe that we would have the kind of working relationship that is key to providing smooth running, reliable and accurate elections.

Larry Scott

It's accurate to within the fuzz of the ball.

Dan Peters

Watching him, I thought the kids really enjoyed playing for him and they played hard for him. After working for him, that?s an accurate statement. They enjoy playing for him, being around him and coming to practice. He makes it fun yet they still work. All he asks them to do is work hard, and in return he does the same thing for them.

Paul Hawken

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.

The decisions are comparatively simple, the possibilities for learning and imitation are unusually large, the compensation for coaches who make the decisions is extremely high, and the market for their services is intensely competitive. Despite these forces, the standard assumption that agents maximize simple objective functions fails to lead to reasonably accurate descriptions of behavior.

Using archaeological and anatomical science rather than artistic interpretation makes this the most accurate likeness ever created,

Daniel H. Pink

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

We paid for the Census Bureau to give us an accurate count. We don't believe that's an accurate count.

We owe it to the people to get an accurate counting of what they thought. ...What I want is the people satisfied because if the people aren't satisfied, it's a bummer.

We've been coaching course management, and he really took it to heart on this course. When I was watching him make his club selections, I couldn't have changed anything. He chose accurate clubs instead of distance clubs.

Bill Nelson

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

We were surprised at the amounts, although we shouldn't be surprised. The weather forecasters haven't been too accurate with these storms lately.

Mark Warner

We will continue to move forward in developing strategies that meet the needs of our U.S. Navy partners while causing the least disruption to Virginia Beach property owners. We remain committed to ensuring the decisions we reach in Virginia are based on accurate and objective data. We repeatedly implored the BRAC commissioners to make sure their actions in regard to the former Cecil Field were based on the same level of verifiable information and analysis that they seemingly applied when examining Oceana. I agree with Mayor Peyton that it is unfortunate the BRAC Commission's actions unfairly pitted two communities against each other.