Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to attract and retain quality educators, and that's the goal.

The fact that the Conservatives are losing voters to UKIP while struggling to attract those who voted for other parties in 2010 suggests they have still not successfully shown what a Conservative government is for. This needs to be done on a broad front in a way that encompasses the economy and public services.

The facts are startling: in Germany, 36% of undergraduates receive their degrees in science and engineering. In China, the figure is 59%, and in Japan 66%. In the United States, the corresponding figure is 32%, ... It is clear we need to do all we can to attract more students to the sciences to remain competitive in the global economy. Such an effort must start in our elementary and secondary schools. National Chemistry Week provides our teachers with the tools and ideas to spark that interest.

What Intel hopes it will do is attract consumers and commercial buyers back to a more expensive PC, so they can sell their higher-end processors.

Curt Smith

What we've done is identify appropriate niches to attract various buyers, such as first-time home buyers, families moving up and retired adults.

Avi Arad

We are incredibly excited to be able to attract some of Hollywood's top talent to help Marvel launch the first wave of our independently produced film slate.

We are hoping this will attract co-op and internship opportunities for our students with top-notch companies.

We'll draw upon the business relationships of our board as we grow the bank, but we also feel the model we have will be attractive beyond that to potential clients.

We'll offer stuff that will make it attractive for them to go forward.

John Updike

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

Nicholas Lea

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

Like any other sort of fringe activity, you find that people are attracted to it because there's something that it fulfills that their daily life doesn't.

Peter Graves

Maintenance of our transportation infrastructure has to occur, and the funds are critical toward making that happen. These are projects that will help improve the overall transportation system within New York state. It will attract new business. We view this as very important for New York state and its communities.

Love in the peace of the blessing in the inheritance with a god in the worship of the man and an attraction in neatness is a GOOD MARRIAGE.

Hermann Hesse

Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not

Rick Perlstein

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans was that underneath the gloss and facade of a first-world tourist attraction was a third-world reality. It will take a lot of work to erase that view.

Mary Harron

Certainly, I've always been attracted to that. Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places. The hidden histories,

But we need to get something back in there that can serve not only the residents but also attract people around the city.

Now you have momentum players and volatility players being attracted into the market.

John Burns

News conferences that two years ago would have attracted 60, 80 or 100 Western journalists now get 10, 15 or less.

New Orleans has a lot of underutilized space and property. There is a huge opportunity to attract people here.

Growers may face having to make their jobs more attractive by offering higher wage rates.

Given the drop in bond yields, stocks which were comparatively cheap before, have become even more attractive to buy. This drop in bond yields may finally be the catalyst we need to propel stocks out of the trading range they have been mired in.

Getting more diverse patients means making yourself more attractive to commercial insurance payers. Price is part of it and quality of services is another part. But to consumers, it may mean a beautiful new building where they will be treated well and will be closer to their home. They may be happy to spend 4 percent more.

For years, V for Vendetta has been a cornerstone of the growing graphic novel category. Having the movie help drive sales to bestseller levels will continue to attract new readers to graphic novels.

France is listening to world business leaders in an effort to create an even more competitive business environment in the global economy. By easing the tax burden on companies and high-level executives, France is working to create an even more attractive opportunity for foreign businesses to succeed here.

For some years denominations are not issued or not issued in large numbers so they attract a premium, ... Some countries may make a token gesture with small denominations to keep the banks who want some happy. They are the ones to look out for. People will then be looking for the ones in the best condition possible.

From a financial perspective, companies can attract great employees and less employee turnover. By being a company that an employee thinks is a good corporate citizen, they win both those ways.

From a practical aspect, when you do the math the hybrid alternative is not always best financial choice because they cost more, and so a smaller car with a fuel economy of 30 miles per gallon is an attractive alternative, especially in urban areas.

From a trading desk standpoint, you'd rather be long (own stocks) here than short, and that starts to build its own dynamic and attract its own level of interest. The market is oversold and selling pressure is easing.

For retailers, the bigger your number is, the more attractive your town is.

Funds with the potential to make money in both rising and falling markets are likely to attract the same target audience that with-profit funds used to. But investors must always make sure that they are comfortable with everything their fund invests in and also that, as far as possible, they understand what the fund actually does. That way there are less likely to be any disappointments.