Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pink

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

Rose Tremain

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.

Pico Iyer

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

Stephen Graham Jones

You always want to read something that everybody says has gone too far, don't you? That's supposed to not just be charting our decline, but embodying it?

Susan Barnes

Once again, Mickey is charting a new frontier, ... He is creating a community to live and work that is very affordable.

Anthony Wilson

In an environment where trade spend costs are rising faster than sales, charting a path to higher impact trade programs has become a strategic imperative for most foodservice manufacturers. Our customers look to us for foodservice expertise and the technology solution required to enable their trade spend initiatives.

Ed Bolen

The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.

John Felmy

When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate.

Toshizo Tanaka

We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.

Doug Jackson

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

Andy Burnham

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.

Mark Dooley

Yeah, it costs more money to get to a show, but this is a seriously good show for the wholesale market.

Shannon LaRocque

We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere.

Tim Ehrgott

We're going to find a different system that works for us, even if that costs us some money to do that. You want to make sure you know what you have in the classroom.

Richard Lee

What we're having here isn't a demand constraint. It's a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor.

David Berkowitz

We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.

Sanjay Gupta

We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind.

Joseph Roth

We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well.

Cindy Adams

We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time,

Carly Fiorina

Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do.

Alex Jones

When you talk to customers, you can tell that a lot of them are a lot more local.

Quincy Allen

We want our customers to be able to tell the difference.

Joko Widodo

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

Greg Brown

We are getting out and visiting customers more, and we are getting new customers calling,

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Tim Ryan

Luis does all the things that enables your team to be successful.

David Selby

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Eric Ripert

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Leon Max

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

Wendy Kopp

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Anita Borg

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

Harriet Lamb

Only as we expand the market can we enable more and more producers to come in.

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

David Suzuki

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

We all live downstream

David Suzuki

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

David Suzuki

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

David Suzuki

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

David R. Brower

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

David R. Brower

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Hanno Langenhoven

Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible.

Jim Lee

Tom's financial expertise was extremely important in our business. He got us through some tough times and I selfishly wanted him to come back to us.

Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Brad Hintz

Trading expertise is something that you can purchase on the marketplace.

Kofi Annan

We don't have money as the U.N., but we'll come with some expertise and experience,

Rick Jones

Perhaps we could tap them for their thoughts and their expertise in the (environmental) area.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Meg Symington

Because the U.S. conservation groups are participating, we are able to provide technical expertise regarding how these funds should be used and ... the most important places where they should be spent.

Tom White

He has the expertise and he was interested in doing it.

Steve Willsey

We led them in. They had the rescue expertise but we had the knowledge of the cave.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Nathaniel Rateliff

My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

Megan Smith

We're going to get her times down faster once she gets in shape. She still has a ways to go on that, but she has a lot of natural ability.

Steve Jobs

We're going to keep going until we're faster than those guys,

Sandra Smith

We're going to have to figure out a way for students to go through school faster so more can come in.

Anatol Popovich

We're faster and plus we play a quicker game.

Joerg Appenzeller

Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now.

Craig Forman

The process is very seamless, and allows us to handle more loans with the same number of people. As we go forward, we can give the brokers a faster response.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Chris Abani

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

Chogyam Trungpa

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chip Conley

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

David Suzuki

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

John Engler

Whatever occurs, it is imperative that you do not overreact.

Chico Buarque

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Kathleen Blanco

For these reasons, it is imperative that the investigation into the response to Katrina be comprehensive, probing and non-partisan.

David Bowie

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Josh Fogg

That's a start, but in order to get where I need to be, I need to be a little better with the off-speed pitches. That's something that you've got to take away from this, realize that it's Spring Training and the results now are not as imperative as they are during the season. But it's time to start getting people out and try to win a job.

Carol Rosenberg

This skin surveillance imperative may serve to be lifesaving in predisposed women.

Bill Bradley

the most lasting contribution that a president ever makes. ... Therefore I feel it is imperative that the president search to find people of integrity ... not someone who's locked into a rigid interpretation of the constitution, someone who sees the law as something that lives and breathes.

Mark Ruffalo

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

Patti Reali

It's imperative that a lot of these operators get into this.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Chogyam Trungpa

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

Darren Shan

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Caitlin Flanagan

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

Nobuyuki Oneda

We are seeing a steady recovery path in the electronics segment.

Diana Nyad

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

C. S. Lewis

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Chester Gould

The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner.

Charles Baudelaire

We revel in the laxness of the path we take.

Kevin Eastler

We stay in touch pretty regularly, via e-mail or the phone. He'll send me programs and I'll tell him how I'm feeling. He'll give me paces and whenever we have the opportunity, we'll get together.

Rod Williams

We were able to put together a packet of programs and get her into a house.

David Heil

We don't know if any of it's going to be funded at all, and if so, we don't know what programs it will be spent on,

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Jack Toney

The programs are coupled together by their funding.

Tim Vonville

We don't want to be adversarial but we see these programs that are adversarial to the students.

Chris Mitchell

There is a lot of support for youth programs here.

Eric Cantor

We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Asia Argento

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Bruce Douglas

We are required to do it. We have to do it.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Beck

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Leo Kipfstuhl

It required us to put on more workers.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Nick Zito

Since he's come back to Kentucky, he's been super. I think he's rising up at the right time.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Brent Liskai

We tried everything we had and they had a solution to everything we had.

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Heather Fiorentino

I think they're trying to come up with a solution that works.

Jerry Grey

I think Griffins team has come up with a truly workable solution that really does make sense.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Claude LeBas

We need to work out a solution here.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Kourtney Kardashian

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

David Smith

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

David Strow

That was the attraction. It was a tremendously strategic location.

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.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Matt Rosoff

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

Navtej Sarna

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

Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan Watts

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Alan Mulally

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles.

Alan Parker

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

Alan Perlis

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Alan Perlis

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

Alan Perlis

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Moore

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Alan Moore

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Donald Trump

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

Donald Trump

We're going to make great trade deals.