Conducive Quotations

There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

We were living in California, and it just wasn't conducive for the lifestyle that we wanted with kids. Los Angeles is tricky to get around, there's paparazzi to deal with, and I had this feeling that I just wanted to move back to Australia.

Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.

The only problem with bio is that it's not conducive to cold weather. We'll circulate engine coolants around the tank and the lines and see if that helps keep the fuel from gelling.

We've spent a good bit of money trying to clean up some things to make it conducive to play there. We've worked on the dugouts, the fence had to be replaced and we reseeded the field all in an effort to get it ready to play.

Miles is just amazing in how conducive his material is to recordings like this, ... It just changes so much.

no objection in principle to removing people from the country or preventing them coming here if they are not conducive to the public good.

Nobody's kissing my ass, unfortunately. I could use a little. But then again, my personality isn't conducive to butt-kissing.

Nick would have done a great job at running back. It's nearly impossible to take a skill athlete, especially a senior, and put him on the offensive line. He had the body and the frame most conducive for the job.

on the grounds that his presence is not conducive to the public good.

One of the reasons I choose to stay (here) is because it is conducive to being on a bike.

If they go back to the apartment over the open-air drug market where they started out in the first place, that's not very conducive to staying out of trouble,

Idiot engineering isn't butt kissing. The whole idea is to make working conditions more conducive to your career growth.

I am quite confident that the policy environment is quite conducive for taking our economy towards a six to eight percent growth path with significant reduction in poverty over the next three to five years.

China believes that using diplomatic means within the framework of the Agency (IAEA) to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is conducive to peace and stability in the region concerned, is conducive to safeguarding the international non-proliferation regime, and is in line with the fundamental interests of all parties.

I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

Frequent exchanges of visits between top leaders of the two countries are conducive to expanding common interests and promoting a win-win situation of mutual benefit.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

I don't think it was conducive to what we had. We've come a long way since that game.

I don't think it's likely it's going to get here, because it's got a rough row to hoe. That water is not conducive to hurricane genesis out there right now. That's cold water.

If the court upholds the commission's case, Microsoft can't continue to innovate. And this creates a bad environment for people who depend on innovation in that platform and an environment that's not conducive to innovation in Europe.

He has a lot of intangibles that are conducive to success. He has the personality and makeup to handle tough spots. He didn't shy away from difficulty during a tough rehab.

The purpose was to ensure that our instructors can teach and our students can learn in a conducive educational environment in which classroom learning opportunities are not undermined by disruptive behavior.

his presence would not be conducive to the public good.

Hopefully the lessons learned from our prior history of unsuccessful negotiations can provide a basis for this restart to take place in an atmosphere conducive to making more progress this time.

There is a need to create a climate that is conducive to peace. The violence has to stop.

There is ample parking for games. But there's not a lot of surface-lot parking, which is necessary and conducive to tailgating.

I think it's an important process. We have to make sure our school environment stays conducive to learning, and unfortunately sometimes that means removing students who cause disruptions.

It conforms to the interests of all parties and is conducive to regional peace and stability.

It didn't have anyone's prints on it, ... because the rubber grip wasn't conducive to prints. We had an expert from the crime lab testifying about why there were no prints.

I think it takes some of the luster off the regular season championship. Now, it doesn't carry as much weight as it used to. Some years, there are breaks in the schedule. Some years are tougher than normal. It's not conducive to having a regular season champion.

It is now instrumental that decisive actions are taken so that the perpetrators can be apprehended and brought to justice. Only then can an environment be created that is conducive for renewed peace talks.

I think (the town) is going to bring a lot of people from all over the country to Southwest Florida. This town is going to be conducive to families.

Our goal is to design and build an open, modern, state-of-the-art facility that will be conducive to creativity, innovation, communication and teamwork. We are creating an environment that will both promote interaction among our 3D Systems' team members and also showcase our technology to customers and visitors.

Our ticket sales are tracking about 35 percent ahead of the Women's Open at this time. If that holds true, we're looking at well over 130,000 spectators. The X-factor is the weather. If it rains for a week straight and you've got muddy conditions, that's not conducive to people walking around. Or if it's horribly hot like last year. That obviously keeps people away, but you cross your fingers and hope the conditions allow for spectators to have an enjoyable time.

Our whole mountain certainly is a natural terrain park. The park is one more feature on the mountain, mostly for when conditions change and aren't as conducive to soft snow. When it's a powder day, people don't use it. When things settle out, the park is more popular.

Such frequent mutual visits show China and the United States carry out high-level communication free of obstruction, which is conducive to the improvement of bilateral ties.

Some of the competition will be pretty stiff. It's a very intense atmosphere, very conducive to good performances.

My reading of the tea leaves is, this is going in the other direction the backlash against this is really starting immigration issues, they're borderline radioactive in the political world. This has brought a lot of the emotional and really raw debate of this to the front and center and I don't think that's a really conducive climate to push legislation at the state level.

I tell all players, I don't determine how much you play, you do by how well you play. In Tony, I think we've got a guy whose temperament is conducive to having success in our system.

We need somebody of such professional skills. For business to be successful, you need a conducive environment, which can only be facilitated by good policies that don't contradict each other.

The All Australian team isn't always conducive to being good and adept at this game, and Kevin and his support group have put together a team which no doubt will be absolutely attuned to this sort of game.

That would be more conducive to finding managers than to rely on an invite-only process.

We hoped that our depth would wear them down. The way we were able to sub allowed us to have more gas at the end. Our tempo and our style are conducive to runs like that.

We have taken on the responsibility to accommodate the entertainment while maintaining an environment conducive to business.

We ha some good things happen, and we had some sub-par performances. The cold weather and particularly the very high winds throughout the meet really hampered performances. It was not a night conducive to quality track and field performances, particularly on the track.

We have come together in reconciliation ... so that we can ensure security and create a conducive atmosphere in East Timor so that there will be no need for acts of terror by either party.

With the team we had last year, I think he did everything he could with that team. There were just some things happening that just weren't conducive to a championship-caliber football team. Those things have been addressed this year, and that's why we're winning.

Typically, the proximity of an intermodal facility is conducive to the development of light manufacturing and distribution facilities,

Today was a good day because I think the weather was very conducive to defense. It's like playing football in Pittsburgh.

The patch helps keep the tissue thick and mechanically softer, creating a more conducive environment for healing instead of scar tissue formation.

What you see on TV is not accurate and it gives us a bad image. What they do on TV is simply not conducive to being professional.

We are conducting our investigation into some matters related to the case. Until it's completed, it's not going to be conducive to go forward with the case or engage in any more discussions about resolving it.

We are happy about the normalization of the Pakistan-India relationship and hope such a momentum could be maintained and this could be conducive to the realization of solutions for the pending issues between the two countries.

We still have quite a bit of pessimism right now. That's conducive to further rallying.

This scene is done using a single sustained mastershot in order to allow the actors the most conducive environment for intimacy and intensity and in order to best communicate what happens in the film's pivotal scene. It cannot be cut without compromising the central scene of the narrative and thus rendering the mystery of the film incomprehensible. It remains more than a bit absurd to me that this scene would garner an R if shot exactly the same but from just the torso up but becomes an NC-17 because the mastershot reveals full bodies.

This scene is done using a single sustained master shot in order to allow the actors the most conducive environment for intimacy and intensity, and in order to best communicate what happens in the film's pivotal scene, ... It cannot be cut without compromising the central scene of the narrative and thus rendering the mystery of the film incomprehensible.

We admit three times a year. Once you start, you continue through with your class through graduation, as doing so is more conducive to learning.

We're coming to grips with the reality that we had an economy that was cruising at 3.6 percent and is looking at 2.7 (percent) or below in the third-quarter as a revision. The question is how soft a landing are we going to get. A more conducive monetary policy would help the plight of stocks but we've got to see some data to support that notion.

UPN-BCS gives us another outlet for community service. For instance, the programming will be conducive to running announcements for March of Dimes or promoting our annual food drive.

The question is how far does it go from here. Certainly the environment is conducive to strength, because the global economic fundamentals are good.

The project should support and broaden the current retail function, be conducive to reinstating the office and residential function of the area, and is expected to be a catalyst for increased private sector investment in the area.

We should step up worldwide energy dialogue and cooperation, jointly maintain energy security and energy market stability, and ensure a well-supplied, secure, cost-effective and clean energy environment conducive to global economic growth.

The real target is creating enough chaos in Iraq so that an extremist government can emerge there that would be friendly and conducive to the form of ideology that bin Laden, Zawahiri and Zarqawi believe in.

We came from a facility that wasn't conducive to learning, and I'm sure other small towns have to face the same things we did with our facility. The new school will boost morale and the interest to learn in the students and community, and also the teachers.

We would have loved to have him stay. But he was able to get back to his school and be in an environment much more conducive to his comfort.

The program involves more personalization. The one-on-one attention is such a conducive way of learning. The children are learning at home, and it doesn't get more comfortable than that.

The portfolio decline was mainly a product of our desire to be opportunistic, and the spreads between mortgage-backed securities and agency debt were not conducive for growth. The tightness of spreads gave us fewer opportunities to grow.

Unfortunately I don't think it's a case of 'if'. I think that the weather conditions are conducive to rapid fire spread.

You can teach in almost any condition. However, it certainly is more conducive to learning when you have the proper facilities and the proper conditions.

We've got a business climate conducive to business creation, and that produces jobs. We have heard from a number of businesses that they're having trouble finding qualified workers.

This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the rest of the world.

The one thing we didn't agree with is (the proposed policy) not to take in healthy cats. We're trying to clean up the town and beautify it we don't want to see 40 healthy cats wandering around and animal control can't pick them up. It's not conducive to a good clean environment.

We lost just about our entire team and they did the same. Our schedule was a little more conducive to rebuilding than theirs, but they've come out of theirs pretty well, which is a tribute to Terry.

We welcome the United States in carrying out normal state-to-state relationship with India and Pakistan. We hope such a bilateral relationship will be conducive to peace, stability and development in of the whole of Asia.

We welcome the United State in carrying out normal and friendly state-to-state relationships with India and Pakistan. We hope such bilateral relationship can be conducive to peace and stability and development in Asia.

Atmospheric conditions are expected to gradually become more conducive for strengthening.

And they're going to be consistent with other countries and other international practices. So, that's a good thing. It's one that contributes to transparency, to confidence, and frankly, to a lessening of tensions, not an increasing of tensions that are, frankly, conducive to arms races.

Enhancing military relations between the two armed forces is conducive to further improvement of bilateral ties,

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

The steps taken by the EC are not conducive to cheap modes of campaigning. We consider this contrary to the aim of widening democratic participation.

The selling is just about over for the time being, but it's not an environment conducive to buying. There's not much reason to jump in.

The significance of this is that Mars is experiencing climate change, because the present conditions are not conducive to the formation of all this CO2 to begin with in the polar region. So sometime in the distant past, Mars was colder than it is now to form a permanent CO2 deposit. Subsequent to that, it has warmed and we are seeing that earlier deposit being eroded away,

Temperatures are going up, and that is very conducive to fire. We had a real erratic wind.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue esoteric research that resulted in America winning the lion's share of Nobel Prizes.

So what that translates to is that you have a very rushed and harried FedEx or delivery person, who is neither trained nor licensed to deliver alcohol, whose job it is to move as many boxes in the shortest amount of time. This is not conducive to slowing down, stopping to check an ID and, if no one is home, as many parents aren't during the day, the product is handed to anybody at the door who may or may not sign for it and, in many cases, the alcohol is just left for anybody to retrieve. That is not how society is set up for alcohol to be sold.

Developing healthy bilateral relations is not only in the fundamental interests of the two peoples, but also conducive to the world as a whole,

The budgeting cycles that state agencies go through are not conducive to rapid deployment of new technology.

August didn't drive. He moved on the surface on his own two feet. He was much more grounded in the community than most of us tend to be. We're all sort of fast-moving; the pace is not conducive to building relationships in the way that I think he did in this town.

The misconception is that icons are worshipped when in actuality they are venerated, a way of making an environment more conducive for worshipping. This is how the Orthodox Church supports the creation and use of icons within the church.

This is good for the team, ... It keeps team morale up. Whenever you get a player of his caliber signed, it shows the commitment the organization has to its players. I think it reinforces a positive message that if you go out there and perform on the field, we'll take care of you. I think that makes a very, very conducive environment for us to go out there and work.

The whole atmosphere is not conducive to a drop in expectations, but if it does happen, we'll get a correction the market.