Famous Quotes & Sayings

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.

Bill Elliott

The Ameriprise Financial Lifetime OptimizerSM quickly and accurately formulates a complete investment strategy that recommends where clients' existing assets should be held, saved, spent and invested over a period of time.

The announcement marks us changing our positioning in the market to more accurately reflect the problems our customers face.

We wanted to make sure that when people left, they felt sure that the game was fairly and accurately portrayed.

We've learned numerous times that when an executive is quoted saying something as bad as that, there's some context in the quote that's missing. Yes, it stunned us when it came out. But we understood there was a story behind it all that was not being accurately reported.

Orhan Pamuk

Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.

Joe Quesada

We need to present both sides' arguments, both sides of the coin, as fairly and as accurately as possible, and really let the readers make their own decision. Marvel readers come in all shapes and sizes, and we speak to so many different people, different demographics. It's unfair for us to make this our bully pulpit and sit there and say, 'This bad. That good.'.

Henry Blodget

While we still believe the model is compelling long term, the business continues to be heavily dependent on airline ticket sales. As a result, it appears management has limited visibility to accurately forecast the business.

Jumping into a tech-driven program, we wanted to deliver it accurately without hiccups.

It is certainly disappointing that, despite the recommendations from federal organizations and nongovernmental groups, many states still have not made progress to make sure their electronic voting systems are safe from fraud and can be relied on to accurately count votes, ... America's voting system must be made to be world class, everywhere in the country, as soon as possible.

It is critical that harvest from each basin be separately and accurately measured, given the need to properly manage perch populations.

I think our ambassador and his comments very fairly and accurately reflect the policy of the United States.

With all research studies, the goal is to create better medical care in the long run. We definitely hope once we discover the cause of the Chiari and give medical professionals more information, hopefully they can more accurately diagnose the condition and diagnose it sooner so patients don't have to wait to begin treatment or experience severe symptoms.

We're both covering the story and we are part of the story. One of our roles that was thrust on us was to make sure the story is told as accurately as can be.

Lisa Randall

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

Polls only tell you want has happened in the past. They cannot accurately predict the future.

Claude Nicollier

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

I wish they could invent something that could accurately forecast the weather every day - then again, that would put me out of work.

Robert Rubin

I don't think we should rule out a change in the CPI if, based on technical analysis, there's a broad-based agreement that the CPI can be changed in such a way as to better and more accurately reflect inflation, ... Meet the Press.

Having the infrared data from Spitzer allows us to measure the star formation rates very accurately because we are no longer blinded by dust.

I think it certainly crushes the notion that you can't look at the numbers and be able to accurately reflect who's a good basketball team and who's not. You need to take a step back and not look at mere brand recognition, if you will.

We took some of those individuals and conducted some special training on range-of-motion and other exercises. So now our data more accurately reflects the excellence in the area.

We're pleased to implement this new, single pricing policy to better serve all laboratory clients. We are making this important change to our pricing structure so it more accurately reflects our commitment to treat all our customers in a fair and consistent manner.

I advocate parcel boundaries because they can accurately be described by surveys.

Bruce Bochy

He has great instincts and feel for the game. He positions himself so well when the pitch is coming and has great reactions. And he throws as accurately as any third baseman I've seen.

He needs to trust that his footwork will take him to the completions. If you don't take the proper footwork, it's hard to throw accurately and on time.

Mo Ibrahim

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

(Friday) night, a great deal of what was done was done accurately and professionally. Of course, everything is overshadowed, as we expect, by this one very, very bad mistake.

We've been accurately and responsibly delivering tens of millions of e-mails containing that Web link, and we will continue to do so.

Bob Schneider

We're looking for him to have a good year. He's one of our captains, he takes charge in the huddle. He throws the ball very accurately and he's probably one of our two or three best runners.

Therefore, the committee believes that a majority of the commissioners court that will be in office in January opposes the current bond election. Consequently, the No No Committee believes that the current jail proposals do not accurately reflect the will of the citizens of Smith County.

Yellow perch are extremely valuable to Ohio sport fishermen. It is essential that we are able to accurately measure both sport and commercial harvests. These changes in the commercial rules are a step toward improving our confidence in the numbers of fish actually harvested.

We have a responsibility to create a work environment that attracts and retains more women -- and more accurately reflects our markets and our world.