Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you just look at state policy, you're not looking at the whole picture. As we've heard from many of our members, you can have a great state policy that can't be implemented, or finds barriers at the local level.

Geena Davis

I love to see those barriers broken. What I'm really hoping is that we can get break the barriers and then get past it to the point that its really not shocking news.

You've got to find another team, and even if you do find another team, they're not obligated to let you play. There are tough barriers to overcome when something like this happens.

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

Alecia keeps improving in the steeplechase and is becoming more efficient with the barriers and the water obstacles.

The barriers that are created on the shop floor with the unions, the work rules, the 'we-they' mentality must be broken for the Big Three to be successful.

The revenue from our operation goes to support our mission, which is to provide job-related services to people with barriers to employment.

IT workers at some companies have learned that blind people can compete. But lots of others have never worked with a blind person before, and attitude-related barriers apply.

They have placed barriers to the advancement of the investigation. They should be replaced.

Size does not carry anything like the momentum that it used to. With the lowering of barriers to entry, big companies have to earn their continued success every day.

We've been able to target real barriers and roadblocks to women's careers, and we've launched interventions to see which ones make a difference.

Kent Beck

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

The story broke down barriers that people had about health and diabetes. When talking to children and beginning with the story and then talking about diabetes, we found that the children listened intently. They were eager to take the information back to their parents and talk about what they had learned in school that day.

Tony Wilson

The telecommunications sector is highly dependent upon the regulatory environment and technological change, to the extent that barriers to entry and level of competition could change substantially with change on either of these fronts.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Now is not the time to create barriers to our economic recovery or reverse the momentum we have generated.

Sooner or later, foreigners will stop financing the deficit. But at this point they show no signs of slowing down. If there were trade barriers that caused Americans to buy significantly less imports, production here would go up a little, but the thing that would take the brunt of the reduction is that our spending would go down as prices went up. We would have less of everything.

Technically, gold prices could also go higher because all historical barriers have been broken.

Kofi Annan

Sadly, the reality of the international trading system today does not match the rhetoric. Instead of open markets, there are too many barriers that stunt, stifle and starve,

I used to naively believe that heavily regulated industries - airlines, insurance, etc. - would show above-average rates of return due to barriers to entry and, therefore, reduced competition. Clearly that is not the case.

The only walls and barriers that were present were the ones that they both climbed together.

Kathleen Sebelius

What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

Cultural differences between physicians and patients, such as language and diet, can often lead to improper treatment or reduced care. This creates barriers that prevent members of minority communities from receiving the best treatment possible.

You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.

Dick Cheney

Tom Daschle, unfortunately, has decided, I think in this case, to be more of an obstructionist, ... Philosophical differences are fine. What we're seeing, though, unfortunately, is that efforts are being made here to artificially erect barriers to Senate action.

As the 'King of Rock' title suggests, the group was breaking down the barriers between rock 'n' roll and rap, rapping over heavy metal records and thick, dense drum loops,

Committee for the Task Force will be formed within next 15 days and accordingly start working for preparing a detailed report, comprising barriers and prospects of business between India and Bangladesh.

E. B. White

We changed the name because of the mission of our church to reach out to people who are un-churched, those who are far away from God. Sometimes denominational names can raise barriers for people. So many people here were not raised in the cultural South, and they have pretty stereotypical ideas about what Baptists are like.

We are trying to identify the barriers to solving the shortage of health care workers and to come up with some proposed solutions. We would like to be collectively responsible for providing more and better-trained health care professionals for the region.

Exchanges generally have proven to be much more profitable than initially thought. They have monopolistic characteristics, which means there are very high barriers to entry, and that's a businessman's dream.

Jackie Stewart

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

We typically don't install median barriers on a section of road with a 45 mph speed limit like this, in an urban area. So, this is a pretty unusual project.

What we're trying to do now is really bring politics to a new level. We're doing that via breaking down the barriers between the candidate or an organization and their constituency.

Those are significant barriers for us. But ... we're taking a long-term perspective. We're going take our time to build our brand, build our customers. We still believe this market has a great potential.