Operative Quotations

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Part of the president's job is to make sure his staff obeys the laws and he should make sure that anyone indicted in this dastardly outing of a covert operative is immediately dismissed from the White House,

We have to talk with representatives of the U.S. administration in order to check the operative mode being applied in the fight against terrorism.

We are leaving our fiscal 2001 estimates and $87 12-month price objective for Microsoft materially unchanged, following fourth-quarter results that were largely devoid of the drama of the past two quarters. Nonetheless, 'caution' remains the operative word from Microsoft management, as continued choppy monthly unit demand from business PCs and a deliberate, gradual ramp from Windows 2000 platforms and related applications hinders near-term growth.

We've got a lot of work to do build on the success of Fusion and F-series. Bold is the operative phrase.

The contractor, the provider for this fence was out of South Africa, and they contracted with a company out of California to do the maintenance, and we've just been very, very unhappy, ... We're continuing to hassle with them about getting this fence to the operative condition it should be in. But obviously, last night, it did not function as it should have functioned.

The operative word is we remain cautiously optimistic. There are risks. Head winds are clearly present. We are seeing slower growth and seeing some erosion in consumer confidence. But we want to stress, as we look at November and December, we should not overreact to those factors.

The operative word is we remain cautiously optimistic, ... There are risks. Head winds are clearly present. We are seeing slower growth and seeing some erosion in consumer confidence. But we want to stress, as we look at November and December, we should not overreact to those factors.

The operative word is coalition. We want to work with all agencies that are local and help them do what they are doing.

The operative word in Public Service Commission is 'public.' And, for most of our members, they have a pretty strong impression the PSC is too attendant to the needs of the utility companies and not common citizens. People are concerned about how to make ends meet.

The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently.

I visited the labs at Caltech, and theyre running an experiment called FAST where they can bring down a DVD-quality movie in 5 seconds. The director told me it could be operative in the market in 18 months. Well, my face blanched.

Adam Quinn is a paid political operative whose mission is to politically undermine the governor. This was more about him acting as a political operative to score political points.

'Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

This partnership borrowed over $110 million from a Canadian bank and that showed up booked as income to the company immediately, ... They were doing almost no business, but they manufactured income from a bank loan under their operative statement. That's the kind of thing that went on over and over and over again, shrouded in secrecy.

There's a wide variety of things we could do. The most operative question is, who would that be? We could target a lot of guys.

I'm sure we'll continue to be in contact with the authorities as they deal with a very difficult situation. The meeting yesterday was in a sense a six-month review. I think the operative note is that the board decided not to restore Zimbabwe's voting and related rights and not return any signing eligibility to use the resources of the Fund.

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?

I know I'm going against the popular grain because very few sites have a paying clientele, but I don't think free is the operative word, it's value. People are hesitant to pay for something on the Internet because they're afraid two weeks later they will find something better for free.

Coming after Peter Harvey and at a time citizens are so skeptical of government, to appoint a political operative is dreadful.

The elimination of penalties on early downs and getting us in an operative down-and-distance situation will (also) help, ... We've got to drive the point home that turnovers are not part of this football team.

an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.

The meeting yesterday was in a sense a six-month review. I think the operative note is that the board decided not to restore Zimbabwe's voting and related rights and not return any signing eligibility to use the resources of the Fund.

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.