Famous Quotes & Sayings

We laugh every year about the big S-word. I always think that there isn't anything more fundamental in industry, in athletics and surely in school communities as synergism. We're all feeling a bit of excitement with this group because measured by traditional standards, most people aren't going to have any expectations for us at all. Inside of our camp, we have real high expectations.

Erik Erikson

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

Billy Collins

The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

The real question here is we don't know how large that impact is yet -- so this is a big source of uncertainty for the Fed and that does give them good cause to take a pause in their measured pace of tightening.

Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional.

Carly Fiorina

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Henry David Thoreau

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak.

Jennifer Granholm

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

You are measured by whether you take personal accountability, or not.

While the general economy was relatively flat in the fourth quarter of last year as measured by the gross domestic product, manufacturing production grew at an exceptionally strong 9 percent annual rate.

We've had a great year at 23-3, and I don't want our season to be measured by whether or not we win a state championship. That would be unfair. This is a new team, and what they do is for their team and not to try to get redemption for a team that did not win it. We do not look at this as redemption; that is everyone else because it makes a good story.

Carl Crawford

We all want to be measured up in this division and see where we stand. We'll have a good idea after this road trip.

We're taking a more measured approach to what works and what may not work and I think, in the world of new technology, that is the quintessential marathon, not a sprint, and we're looking at it accordingly.

Fred Wilson

Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.

We conducted all our studies quite a while ago and they measured the noise and found that the traffic at Highway 111 and Washington was more than that coming from the concert,

The recent frothy price action could not be sustained and once the market has completed its current shakeout, we can expect a return to more measured progress in 2006.

John Ruskin

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

What is measured improves, and what isn't measured doesn't improve. It's an incentive. Providers don't want to be at 85 percent when their neighbors are higher.

Jennifer Chiaverini

'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'

We cannot ignore the issues that we have and that the industry has to address. Our success will be measured in a large part on how well we address these issues,

We will double the fans that watch Monday Night Football in a measured audience across all our platforms.

Peter Oppenheimer

We will continue to add new stores at a measured pace and expect to open a total of 40 new stores in fiscal '06.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not leaping into this, we're moving into it in a measured way,

E. B. White

We think the measured use of such bonuses would help stabilize our shrinking acquisition workforce until recruitment efforts can fill the depleted ranks of these sorely needed professionals.

To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.

Tony Robbins

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

With a trustworthy computer model of combustion, engineers can design improved engines or fuel blends without needing to build and test so many different versions. The database of chemical reactions needed for such a computer program is too big to be filled in strictly with measured numbers, and we have to rely on chemical rate theory to calculate much of this database. Our experiments are important for showing how far we should trust these calculations.

Bob Parsons

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

E. B. White

This recovery we're in is gradual. We're seeing a real measured pace of absorption, rent appreciation and vacancy decline.

Deborah Harkness

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

With or without cognitive impairment, patients improved in stroke rehabilitation, and they improved at a similar rate, regardless of whether cognitive impairment was present, at least as measured by the Mini-Mental State Exam.

Camille Paglia

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.