Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Oliver

Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

Seth Godin

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

Dusty Baker

I don't want to get off on that too much. There's always an adjustment no matter where you go.

I don't want to write Erin and Leah out of here. It's just a huge adjustment here for any rookie in camp -- let alone at that position.

I don't worry about rushing him. He'll adjust wherever he goes. He isn't going to be scared, that's for sure. A lot of guys have the talent, but they have fear. You won't see that with him. He doesn't lack confidence.

Mike Krzyzewski

I don't think we ever completely adjusted to the physicality of this game.

He's not satisfied with his performance. He knows he can do better, and he knows he will do better. It takes time to get adjusted to New York.

He's much better adjusted than Bernard One until he finds out that he is a clone. Then his world kind of falls apart. You get the impression that he had a loving father. He was wanted and well taken care of, but he begins to question that. We begin to see him losing confidence in his own worth.

I consider Marlon like Lenny Harris. He has adjusted from being an everyday player to a guy coming off the bench.

I could have done it (box) in the first half, but I didn't want him to adjust to it.

I could feel everybody, ... I knew I had to charge home. I'm happy that I just finished clean and strong. I enjoy the heptathlon. At first, it was an adjustment for me. I'm not completely developed in all the events. I believe I can do both.

Joe Calzaghe

I love to knock guys out, that's my game, but today I had to adjust and box with my jab. I would have knocked him out by the fifth or sixth round. But I had to jab my way to victory.

Erma Bombeck

I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week.

Jeff Baker

I'm sure management has tough decisions to make on some of their utility players. I have to keep focused on what I'm doing, making the adjustment to the outfield, and trying to get some base knocks.

In high school they play as hard as they can, but I think they're starting to realize that that's not nearly hard enough. I think a lot of it is going to be adjusting to this level of play. They're in big-time women's basketball and they're learning physically.

In cooperation with God, we've decided to adjust our plans accordingly.

Elizabeth Warren

In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, 'It will preserve jobs.'

In making this adjustment we're doing so on the basis that we'd like our payout ratio to begin with a 4 rather than a 3.

Todd Akin

In light of this mounting problem, it may become necessary to restore the confirmation process by adjusting the rules in the Senate.

In light of the current levels of expected industry spending, we are adjusting our work plan and targeting a cost structure, expected to be in place during the first quarter of 2002, to drive breakeven at a quarterly revenue level well below $4 billion, instead of the $5 billion quarterly revenue level outlined previously.

In all my years of soccer I have never seen this many tough losses in overtime games in one season. This game is really going to help us the way we fought and stuck to the game plan. We adjusted very well to how this game was played.

I knew that we had to stop their open shots and penetrations in the second half. So we adjusted defensively and took away those opportunities. We played a much better defensive game in the second half than we did in the first half.

Alain Vigneault

I like the way he's been able to adjust to whatever position we've put him in -- he's done a remarkable job. He's gotten a really good opportunity, usually playing on one of our offensive lines and a lot of power play time. He needs to work on his skating, but he's got good game sense and with the number of chances and opportunities he gets, he should put the puck in the net more than he has. But his work ethic and overall play this year is solid. He took the opportunity and ran with it and did a good job. He's earned it.

Jonathan Toews

If the officials call the game the same way, we're going to have to adjust and be smart with our sticks. If we're on the power play, we're going to have to capitalize.

If the new oil price assumption leads to an adjustment in wages beyond our expectations for 2006, then there is some basis for reviewing the existing monetary policy.

Susan Rice

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

If you have more than a 10-percent adjustment to make, you need council approval.

Aaron Hill

If you're not adjusting one way you're adjusting another, ... but it's good to learn that now because obviously I want to be here for a lot more years.

If you're getting too large a refund back that means you've not done a good job of anticipating what your taxes are going to be and you've given the IRS an interest-free loan all year. You have to adjust your withholdings this year to have your taxes break a little closer to even next year.

Jim Haslett

I'm ready for anything. If I have learned nothing else, I learned things happen and change fast, and you've got to be able to adjust on the fly.

Nomar Garciaparra

I'm just swinging. It's just like third base - you go out there and work on that as well, and it's a constant adjustment and constantly working on it every day.

I'm pleased to report that our company once again posted strong results for the quarter. Revenues rose 4 percent and Adjusted Operating Income before Depreciation & Amortization (in short, OIBDA, the new metric that we are using to track profitability, which is roughly comparable to EBITDA) increased 11 percent.

I'm just looking forward to getting a chance to get on the field and make some plays. If you're a football player, you can adjust to anything on the field.