Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sweeney

I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.

Bob Beauprez

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

David Dyer

We've made much progress in this past quarter, especially in getting our inventory more closely aligned with sales, restructuring our organization into functional operating units and putting people in key leadership roles,

Rob Ashe

We're extending our strategic alliance with IBM in order to drive innovation deeper into the marketplace. We think with this alliance our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their business-intelligence and performance-management initiatives.

Ron Slaymaker

In wireless, we're aligned well with the players taking share. That's certainly benefiting us.

Robert Zagunis

If you wind up with a company that is so closely aligned with one individual, like it or not, the virtues of that company are tied to the virtues of that individual. You're usually much better off with CEOs who are under the radar and just work at doing a very nice job for shareholders.

Kyril Faenov

In fact, their motivations are perfectly aligned with ours?that is, as broad a penetration as possible.

David Reilly

These investments are aligned with our extensive queue of projects that are scheduled to come on line between now and 2008, bringing significant new supplies of energy to U.S. and global markets.

Ed Murnane

These groups are basically a family of people that have been traditionally supporters of, or closely aligned with, trial lawyers nationally and in Illinois.

Carly Fiorina

We can rebuild an alliance to fight ISIS, but we have to lead, and we have to give our allies what they are asking us to do. We do not have to march off to war, but we have to help our allies fight a war which we need them to win.

Comte de Lautreamont

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Phaedrus

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Marianne Williamson

We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

Vitruvius

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Prakash Karat

We discussed the strategy for the upcoming assembly polls and we decided to strengthen the Left Democratic Front (LDF). We have decided that we will have no electoral understanding or alliance with any other parties.

Abbas Bayati

We are not going to discuss a candidate inside the Alliance because this will create a crisis inside the Alliance.

Lee Myung-bak

Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.

William Odom

In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

Gavin Patterson

The overall service experience such as billing, technical support, and repair are important to customers. It's also important to customers to provide them with a one-stop shop for all of their communications needs. Then we have a trusted brand. Whom do you trust to provide you with these important services?

Leo Apotheker

We have lost zero customers to Oracle's OFF SAP program.

Nick Hanauer

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

Rick Tsai

We are having some difficulties in meeting our customers' demand.

Pat McGauley

We're letting customers personalize and individualize their beer.

Sven Kramer

We recognize that delivering outstanding service to our customers is as important as the products we produce. Our sales and customer relations staff routinely participate in training to better understand our customer's needs. We also make sure to follow The Golden Rule: treat our customers as we would like to be treated.

Brad Goldberg

We're encouraging customers to test out the enterprise capabilities, understand application compatibility and look at the technologies included to understand the impact they'll have in their own specific IT organizations.

Paige Craig

Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.

Phil Schiller

We try to find better solutions - our customers have given us a lot of trust.

Vera Farmiga

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

Don Everly

I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

Brian Skerry

I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world. To feed my passion and to raise awareness, I developed a story about sharks for 'National Geographic' magazine.

Matthew Fox

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service - and even worse, they don't have a strong enough belief in themselves.

Mike White

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Varley O'Connor

What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

William Kent Krueger

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Benjamin Spock

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Steven Milunovich

The PC is not the driver of technology anymore, ... We are big believers, however, in handheld devices, such as those made by Palm and Research in Motion. A lot of applications are going to migrate to handhelds.

Brandon Flowers

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.

Beeban Kidron

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Dennis Christopher

In my drive to be the perfect artist, I've left a lot of living to the side.

Eric Betzig

It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

Dwayne Johnson

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

Malcolm Gladwell

When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

Sander Levin

Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.

Jusuf Kalla

We are now evaluating the possibility of extending AMM.

Andrea White

One of the things under consideration is the extension of those programs. And the thought is that by extending the programs those people will be reached.

Tom Stutsman

People may have other ideas, such as improving the parks or extending streets or putting in new streets. All ideas are welcome.

Rick Gibson

That's been one of our problems (holding leads or extending leads). We're a young team, but it's more than half way (through) the season, so we're not young anymore.

Aristotle

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

Neil Warnock

The good thing about extending the loans is we can now have them back at a minute's notice should we need them.

Dominic Monaghan

Being an actor's about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.

Steven Wood

Weakness was widespread, extending the period of pronounced weakness.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Greg Goodwin

We played with what we had. The kids really stepped up and played tough. It will only help us in the tournament.

George Rinehart

We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.

Paul Wayne

We play a pretty competitive league and non-league schedule which helps prepare us for the tournament.

Theo James

I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilling, and you'll have a longer shelf life as an actor.

Craig Bruce

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

Frank Dzubeck

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390. This is an evolutionary trend.

Frank Dzubeck

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390,

Larry Rice

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

Teresa Jones

This sounds very interesting indeed. I would not be at all surprised if IBM has problems getting this information.

Jeff Raikes

IBM legitimized the notion of the PC -- that it would not be just a hobbyist computer.

Knox Fuqua

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech,

Steven Milunovich

Next year IBM is probably going to come in roaring back into the second half, but in between it's a mess,

Larry Ellison

I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.

Edwards Deming

Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.

Ludwig von Mises

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Carl Jung

You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

Edith Widder

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Arthur Erickson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Bill Gates

There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

Alex Alben

I think that everyone would feel that a renegotiation that allows for a percentage of revenue would be the optimal outcome.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

Andrew Natsios

even in a best-case scenario, under optimal conditions, we could see as many as 320,000 people die.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Le Corbusier

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

Dick Cheney

We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

Mark Cuban

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

Richard Duncan

We're doing more than we've done previously in order to be prepared for today's environment.

Andrew Weil

Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the mystery of balance. Far from being simply the absence of disease, health is a dynamic and harmonious equilibrium of all the elements and forces making up and surrounding a human being.

Chu Sik

We can't keep up with orders now, especially TV panels.

Ludwig von Mises

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

Meles Zenawi

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Kong Quan

We are not in a position to receive this visit.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

We are not in a position to propose a specific plan.

Edward Bilkey

We are not in a position now to stop this.

Lucy Liu

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Alan Embree

When you're in a position to put somebody away, you have to just do it. It's not mechanical.

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Alan Cohen

Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn.

Akhenaton

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Barry Diller

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

August Strindberg

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

Denise McCluggage

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

Elizabeth Olsen

You want everyone to succeed in your family.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.

Bill Gates

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

Laura Fraser

I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.