Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Stern

We are pleased to have these renowned franchises represent the NBA in the most ambitious international competition in league history.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

Natalie Massenet

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

Matthew Caws

When we were 14, it was Cost of Living. Then later, it was Because Because Because. That band was real ambitious and networking, looking for a deal. And that sucked, so we broke up. Nada Surf was formed for fun.

Rob Portman

To move Doha to a successful and ambitious conclusion, we must all make contributions that includes services, manufacturing, agriculture and other areas of the round. We need contributions from developed countries like the United States, but also developing countries. Every country must do its part.

Barbra Streisand

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

Sam Altman

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

James Vincent McMorrow

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

Debra Rhymer

The position that opened up happened to be a social studies position. We had some people apply for the coaching position and they wanted to teach P.E. We had some other people apply just for the teaching position. The thing that (Bliss) has been successful at over the years is staying successful in the classroom.

Wayne Gieselman

There are some end results that show some folks could start applying technology that, frankly, is available to help control some of the emissions.

Michael Dell

We're increasingly applying the Internet to our entire business, from component design to end-user support, in the process making it easier to do business with Dell, enhancing relationships with customers and suppliers and reducing costs for all of us,

Nolan Sotillo

You should be watching 'Red Band Society' because it's a show that inspires us to live. I feel like you'll get connected to these characters, and they teach you something that you can apply to your daily life.

Mike Blouin

We always had a standing rule on economic development that towns didn't steal from each other. If they were going to do that, they didn't get any help from the state. I think the same thing should apply here.

Dick Gephardt

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Lydia Parnes

What we're looking for is to have small businesses apply standards that are reasonable in light of the information that they're storing. There's no business around that would leave a stack of money on a table, for people to just walk in and take. What we're really saying is that information about consumers, about your customers, is the new currency.

Paul Tecpanecatl

What they want the communities to do is apply for the work they will do. HUD (the Department of Housing and Urban Development) wants to know how many roofs, how many plumbing systems and how many furnaces were replaced. There's a lot of money being spent, but no accountability.

Tre Kelley

We can do all the drills in the world, but we have to apply it in the game. We look so good in practice doing them, then we come out in the game and it's not the same. ... We have to rebound. We have to box out on every play. We have to do the little things.

Steve Case

We want to take it from a place in Arizona to a resort destination in many locations. Urban wellness centers in even more locations and a whole variety of products and services, so that it is a part of everyday life, not just a part of something you do once or twice a year.

Charles Harris

We actually got a lot of grief one year when we left out one of the Big Ten teams and took Miami (Ohio). That was the year Miami (Ohio) knocked off Arizona in the first round. So suddenly you feel vindicated.

Dominique Byrd

We respect everyone week in and week out and we know Arizona State is another fierce competitor in the Pac-10 and they have things to prove. We're just doing our best to be prepared for them.

Gregg Marshall

What has gotten old is one-and-done. (Winning is) the next step. That's what we talked about in that locker room in Arizona last year.

Tina Boutelle

We bring it up more because its Arizona and we play them a lot. Those are the best games to play. Those are much more fun for me personally. It's the competitive games that make it interesting.

Curtis Dubay

What's keeping Arizona firmly in the middle is that they need to do a better job with business taxes.

Scott Whiteford

With the rich cultural heritage and history of the state, coupled with its location, the University of Arizona is positioned to be a national leader on Latin American scholarship and international policy,

Kirk Walters

We know we have to win these last three games. It's huge. It's sort of the tradition of Arizona basketball, and we don't want to be the team that let this down and was the team that didn't get the 20 wins and that berth in the NCAA tournament. We definitely want to keep that going.

Roger Clark

We're just getting to the point where we're having fun. Are we going to set carbon targets? Are we - god forbid in Arizona - going to do something about sprawl? We're going to do our best to get language in that will make a difference.

Richard Orr

We've always said we had the most compelling numbers.

Arthur Goldberg

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Laila Ali

'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

Kate Reardon

There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Ron Hutchins

This project provides a unique opportunity for the students and faculty at Georgia Tech to gain experience with a compelling new platform for next-generation wireless applications.

Peter Power

There is compelling evidence of serious state intervention.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Alan Alda

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

David Graeber

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Catherine Deneuve

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Ludivine Sagnier

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

Ludivine Sagnier

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Mark Stewart

We are pleased to see the industry moving in this direction. Just to give you a little history, we launched a similar program enhancement four years ago. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury CPO have been teamed with MSX International since February 2002.

Chris Culos

We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.

David Hockney

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

James Blumenthal

What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,

Bob Ross

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

Nicholas Jarecki

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

Larry Lucchino

Tom Werner said this is a happy day for the Red Sox, and I agree. We?re a stronger, more effective and bolder front office.

Stuart Roy

What's so effective is the messengers. The returning veterans are talking about what they saw in Iraq. The family members are talking about their loved ones.

Chuck Keller

We feel that subscriptions will be a very effective marketing tool for the lottery.

John Treanor

We're hoping that this sort of local immune response is going to be more effective at preventing infection with the flu virus than the kind of immune response you get with a flu shot.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Charlie Munger

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Alan Greenspan

While (Japan) has made some important efforts, it has yet to make significant progress in diversifying the financial system,

Dan Murphy

We're going to have to see what the financial position is once we get through this bidding phase and make adjustments to provide a full service, high quality high school for our students.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Carlos Slim

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

David Bryant

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

Dan Ariely

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Scott Reamer

The question is, what incentives and what discounts have they needed to provide to get to that number and indeed just what is their operational efficiency?

Jennifer Dunn

We are actually still working with Chico's, and there are incentives involved because it's very important for us to keep this kind of headquarters in this community, and we feel like Chico's has a lot to offer to the community.

Andrew Lincoln

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Dave Van Ronk

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

David Limbaugh

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

Jon Birsner

Maryland played it well and Ian wasn't wide open. It really didn't matter because I was going to throw it to him no matter what.

Skip Lockwood

Maryland is the first state that seems to be going section-by-section through the bill, because so much opposition to this has come out of the woodwork that they are very concerned.

Paul Blank

This is a responsible piece of legislation that the people of Maryland probably support.

Rich Rodriguez

Syracuse was tough, but Maryland is the most talented team we've played so far.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Kim Polese

We have no preset notion of how the model will look.

Deborah Abbott

We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

Thierry Mugler

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

Tariq Anwar

My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.

Tao Okamoto

I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'

Enrique Pena Nieto

The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Mark Williams

Probably Adelaide (deserve it), they're on top. It's a noted thing to win the McClelland Trophy.

Alcee Hastings

It pains me to report that progress noted in the pre-election period was undermined by significant deficiencies in the count.

Bob Bowlsby

They called and notified me they'd like to talk with Steve and I noted their interest. That's all there was to it.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Derek Bailey

I don't research anything.

Edwin Land

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Barbara Tuchman

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Brigham Young

I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches