Michael Foley Quotations

Moody's affiliation with NCRA is an additional step in extending our credit rating, research and analysis services in Europe.

He wants an update on how the children are.

It is designed to be a town center.

Manufacturers and users alike recognize that Bluetooth technology is the perfect solution for hands-free systems.

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

We definitely looking for same type of range ... one room range.

The really gross cases are kids with really terrible diets.

This year we have several baptisms to perform at the Vigil on Saturday. There is a very large Portuguese and Spanish community in Milford so on Sunday we offer Masses in English and Spanish. Our 10:30 Masses will probably be attended by 1,300 people.

We've got the worst teeth in the nation and we're paying a fortune for it. We spend far more than other states on Government dental services.

I've worked with John as a player and recently as a coach and we complement each other well.

They don't brush and they have too much sugar. At that age (4, 5 and 6) diet is probably more important than brushing,

They're holding up. They miss them (the twins) terribly.

It is really disappointing in the context of how we played in December when we had four wins out of four and scored 13 tries.

It's a great recognition to be asked to come back and do something like this. I hope to give it a little greener flavor than it might have without me, right?

The Bluetooth SIG is dedicated to educating the industry and consumers about Bluetooth wireless technology and acting as a resource for the media that report for those audiences. As such, we want to be responsive and accommodating to journalists covering wireless communications and its effect on people's daily lives, so our multi-media content will now be available on demand from our website. Our organization represents 4,000 members who are leading the development of Bluetooth wireless technology in their products, which puts the SIG in a position to share a great deal of information in one spot.

It was not a power issue but one of positioning. Steve just needed to get in the right positions to showcase what he has to offer. Believe me, he is an asset to any team.

They would love to get their children back. They miss them tremendously and they love their children. What happened was an unfortunate situation and one that got worse over time, but they never intended to harm their children. They realize now that their actions were not in the children's best interest, regardless of what they thought at the time.

I had a kid in earlier this year who said, 'I've only got four teeth'. He had his four six-year molar teeth and two were already decayed,

I reiterate my total innocence of the allegations made against me, ... And will take all necessary steps to clear my good name.

I don't know if I can go in there for this, because the idea of having you think to yourself, 'Oh God, how do I tell her this isn't right for her?' is more painful than me just not getting the part. I'd almost rather just skip the process.

It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at the top...there are probably as many forms of happiness as there are of depression.

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not be achievable at all - or, at best, only intermittently and unconsciously - and may even turn into its opposite if directly pursued, but that it frequently turns up unexpectedly in the course of pursuing something else. There is no tease more infuriating...It is tempting to forget the whole thing and simply fall back on the couch with a remote control in one hand and a beer in the other.

But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

All of a sudden there was a lot of static and it went blank.