Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

The overall industry outlook is not improving in the short term, and the economic conditions in Asia Pacific and Latin America continue to negatively impact our business, ... The domestic market is suffering from heavy promotions at retail, which is affecting our performance. And the well publicized conditions in Japan and Korea, our two largest markets in the Far East, has caused reported sales to decline approximately 50 percent when compared to last year.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

The AMT is an entirely different way to calculate your taxes, and it's not really an alternative, as the name suggests. You have no choice. And it's affecting more and more people all the time.

Shahid Afridi

The amount of cricket being played these days is too hectic for me and I felt playing both forms was affecting my performances. Doing well in the World Cup and helping my team win is my main priority now.

We have truly a global epidemic which appears to be affecting most countries in the world.

I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a large number of institutions who are going to fail, then that ends up affecting the system.

We have to have very good information to sustain these projects. In order to get a program in effect and sustain it and defend it, we need to know what the predator-prey relationship is and what it's doing. We need to know how the control program is affecting bears and wolves. We need to know what happens after the program ends.

Paul Singer

Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.

Wireless technology has changed the way we communicate and how we conduct business. While this technology expands accessibility and productivity, it introduces complexity and security risk as wireless networks and handheld mobile devices become a new target for hackers and thieves looking to disrupt usage and steal personal information and business-critical data. The increased risk of information theft and malicious code affecting handheld mobile devices demands more education and vigilance from consumers and small office/home office (SOHO) users alike.

We continue to learn more about how past agricultural practices are affecting our current environment. Unlike some pesticides used today, metals like arsenic and lead in old pesticides do not degrade over time.

It'd be like having dust storms in Arizona immediately affecting the atmosphere in Brazil.

The problem is not affecting her marathon preparations.

The problems are the same: Interest rates are high, and the economy is strong. It is affecting those sectors that are credit sensitive.

Ronnie Brown

I was in disbelief, ... You can't imagine a disaster like this is hitting so close to home and affecting so many people.

It doesn't surprise me. An employee should not be able to vote on legislation affecting his or her employer.

We don't see switching the court as affecting the outcome for us. The secretary will still uphold the election code and Texas law.

We didn't see this so-called 'CNN effect,' ... We looked long and hard for it, but it was tough to quantify. It's probably only affecting sales on the margin. For the year it'll probably end up taking a little wind out of our sails.

We're not talking about a big scary levee break affecting lots of homes. The levee breaks reported in south Sacramento were really leftover breaks from the floods earlier this year.

John A. Logan

Policy choices affecting who can return to which neighborhood, and with what forms of public and private assistance, will greatly affect the future character of the city.

Ongoing protests are affecting investor sentiment negatively. Investors are now concerned whether the crisis will affect government economic policy.

David Satcher

One of the major concerns we have about the AIDS epidemic is that increasingly it is affecting communities that tend to be left out of the health care and public health system, ... We know that in order to be successful we have to find a new way to reach these communities.

Basically, the biggest thing was this team is going to be together for the next two or three years. Things that we're doing wrong now are not only affecting this game but the next game after that and for years to come. Coach is saying if you're not going to do the right things now, what's going to make you do them in the future?

Charles Barkley

Because of the opportunities I've had in life, I feel I have an obligation to speak up about issues affecting our communities, and one of those issues is the health status of African-Americans and how to raise their level of health,

Jay Heaps

I don't think it's affecting their play, but it's definitely not letting them be as loose as they would. They worry about injury, because they don't want to get hurt and take themselves out of contention.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

I think it's a general malaise and it's affecting all parts of the (Michigan) economy. Tourism will be affected; I think people are being hit and in winter, they will be hit more than their paychecks have grown. I see nothing that will help this economy, short of big tax cuts.

I think it is affecting the scores. I think all the pitchers are going to get hit this season, so I believe the key to winning this year is a strong defense.

It can be minimized. Once people look in their own backyards and see that it's affecting their neighbors.

I think it's already affecting his play. He's hitting a bigger ball, he's taking the ball earlier, he's attacking more. We worked out individually today for about an hour, he and I, and I see a difference in the balls he's hitting.

He came in with a chest infection originally but now that has spread to his kidneys and it is affecting his other organs. He's got internal bleeding. He's seriously ill - at this point, he's fighting for his life. It's about as bad as it can get.

Whatever is causing the declines must be something that is affecting the whole of our country.

There is no allegation that it's affecting his performance on the bench. It really is truly only about his private conduct.