Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the competent

Frank Middleton

She has now determined (Kirk) is competent to stand trial. That is not an issue,

Jesse Smith

Since he has no prior record and obviously this was the result of some form of Alzheimer's, I would hope he would be placed on probation in the event he's found competent to stand trial. I would be very surprised if he were sent to prison. It's a sort of freak occurrence that someone this old gets involved in something like this. He's the oldest person I've ever had to represent.

E. B. White

She is a warm and considerate woman. We knew she would nurture our children. I'm unable to understand why a competent teacher was removed at this critical time.

Cass Sunstein

She is unquestionably an intelligent person and a competent lawyer. But she's had very little experience in constitutional law.

Ulla Bock

She made it to the top, also because there was a vacuum of power and she was her party's only hope. But she is nevertheless highly competent and fit for the office.

Dick Durbin

may be a very competent individual. But how in the world can we get to the truth of the question as to what went wrong with Hurricane Katrina -- how can we really hope to discover the incompetence that led to all this human suffering and devastation -- if the administration is going to investigate itself?

E. P. Thompson

Now that John Thompson is successful, ... I find it very difficult to fire him because the pigmentation in his skin is white. Besides, he's competent and he's my friend.

Albert Murray

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

Josh Engel

We've spent eight years developing our craft, and now we have a troupe we're really happy with and we want to go further.

John Lasseter

We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

Stanley A. McChrystal

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.

Stephen Cambone

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

Tracie Thoms

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

Nancy Parrott

The popularity has really developed on word of mouth, and it lives up to it. It also has that universal appeal.

Mitch Kapor

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

John Rymer

Ultimately it comes down to the market and developers voting with their dollars.

Ted Ligety

I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

H. Hart

We have to go out there and prove ourselves to where they can't say we're not a top-five team. You don't want everybody out there saying, 'Oh, you're the No. 1 team.' We want to come out and prove to ourselves that we can be a top team.

Rahshon Clark

We have to get together as a team and just talk. What is going on right now should not be happening. Everybody has their own opinion of what's going on and things we have to do.

Bob Thomas

We have no place to go. We tried the housing authority, we tried every place to get a house, but everybody says they can't do it.

Tony Dungy

When everybody gets healthy, I think we're going to like our roster, ... We like the guys we have.

Ken Hitchcock

When your top goal scorer goes out, everybody sees it.

Bob Whitelaw

We want everybody up here having a good weekend.

Jack Fultz

We want everybody to have a good time.

John Gorman

We want everybody to be satisfied, ... We are more than willing to participate in resolving any problems that need to be resolved.

Geno Auriemma

We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it's not out of the realm of possibly to do that. We've got all the ingredients. It's just a matter of doing it.

Shane Sisco

When you see a kid like him, who is as good as he is, it's because of the extra work he puts in. He's willing to put in the extra hours on his own to work on his game.

Jeff Jagodzinski

The extra weight that those guys have, that doesn't help 'em. In my opinion, it just doesn't.

Tim Lucas

The extras on most major Hollywood product are rarely worth wading through. Only the real fan-driven titles need extra detailing.

Lisa Freeman

The extra help last year proved to be quite successful, and it helped some people maintain service.

Alex Taylor

The fact of the matter is it's going to take a long time to recoup the extra money you will spend on the hybrid.

Folarin Campbell

Uh, something about going the extra mile and not worrying about traffic, I think.

Jasika Nicole

Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people, and its not necessarily something that needs to have attention to it, unless that person is feeling uncomfortable in the world or they need extra help or something.

Josh Boone

When you want to stop, and you don't think you can give any more, you think about that Pittsburgh jersey in here. Looking up at the scoreboard, seeing that you're down 10 at the end of the game. That gives you a little extra motivation.

Bob Benincasa

When you want something it makes it extra special when you come through.

Carlos Castaneda

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

Mike James

We have to get that feeling that we have when we're down 20 and take that into the start of the game. We can't be nonchalant.

Ville Nieminen

We have a special feeling in the locker room.

Agnetha Faltskog

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Agnes Varda

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

Alan Sugar

I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. . .

Charlotte Bronte

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

Charles Dickens

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

Ken Holland

Whenever this gets done, there's going to have to be a long healing process with fans, management and players.

Mickey Rourke

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

Lorenzo Booker

When he gets to the league, people are going to wonder, 'Where did this guy come from? And we'll say, 'We knew it all along.

Bill Chavis

When he gets to college, I think he'll concentrate on academics. But he will still run. He has it in his blood.

Dan Hinote

When he gets the puck in those areas, he usually scores.

Travis Parker

When he gets the ball, you don't know what he's going to do.

Colby Armstrong

When he gets that puck, he makes things happen. It's pretty special to watch him play the way he does. When he's at the top of his game, he's up there with the top players in the league.

Tom Slater

When he gets on, it allows us to steal some bases, hit-and-run, do a lot of things in the small game. It really helps our offense.

Doc Rivers

When he gets it going like that, I don't know what you can do.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Gordon Ramsay

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Steve Belardi

We used to send all footwear? men's, women's and kid's?all together on a pallet. It was a big hassle at the store level because a lot of it would go to the back room. They were touching every carton. It was crazy.

Ian Hamilton

The process sets wage levels for the country.

Andrew Jones

We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of things.

Garry South

We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

Carol Leifer

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

Carlos Fuentes

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Duncan Fletcher

We want to rest Freddie whenever we can. We saw this as an opportunity the other day.

Fran Dunphy

When your opportunity comes, it's not what you do right as much as it's what you don't do wrong.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Aasif Mandvi

When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Alan Stern

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

Alan Rusbridger

There is this ferocious digital revolution coming along and we're in the teeth of that at the time of maximum economic disruption. There are huge opportunities there. I made the point in my supplementary statement that the Guardian is now a very considerable global player, but there are huge challenges in terms of making, of finding, the convincing business model, so I want to see Guardian journalism continue and thrive, although whether and to what extent that is in print or in digital is a sort of second order matter.

Alan Shepard

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

Justin Vincent

We have so many players from New Orleans. It's always in the back of our minds.

Jim Schmitz

We have players that can make some outstanding plays.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

Thomas Doll

We know we have signed quality players - but they will need time.

Jerry Jones

The position that's on the table by the players just isn't acceptable.

Joe Browne

We're going with young players who want to play in Pittsburgh.

Nitasha Brown

With the win at Kentucky, players got a taste of what it takes to win at this level.

Justin Huber

Wow. I didn't even know it so I'm very shocked. There are some tremendous players who had some tremendous years so I'm very honored.

Kiki Chesterton

We've got a very multi-diverse attack. I have seven players at the restraining line, and all seven can put it in the net. We got some sick shooters.

Richard G. Scott

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Travis Bradberry

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

Frank Chumbley

We are going to have to find out who is going to step up when the pressure is on. We are going to have to find that out real early.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Chris Carter

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Bosh

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Ben Broussard

We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.

Greg Hill

We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Jim Brown

Basically, everything's for sale, with the right price. All properties are at risk.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Meg Mallon

I don't even look at it as a proper score.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Jeff Buttle

I don't think it will be enough. And that's fine. I'm skating better now.

Katarina Witt

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

Priscilla Hill

He has no idea what his skating does to people.

Michael Peca

Our success comes with skating and being aggressive.

Debi Thomas

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

John McDonald

These docks are water-soaked. When it freezes, it turns into a skating rink.

Michelle Kwan

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

Nancy Kerrigan

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

Nancy Kerrigan

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Scott Mills

The extemporaneous thinking is important. It is a really important skill in life.

Brian Eno

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

Dave Franco

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Jasmine Cresswell

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Jason Cirone

When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute.

Ed Belbin

We know, at this time of the year, special teams is everything.

Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

George Williams

This was a special season. We accomplished a lot... . It's special even though we didn't win the state title.

Janet Jackson

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Ava Gardner

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

Jim Calhoun

He's a terrific 5-on-5 player, much better than he is a 2-on-2 or a 1-on-1 player.

John Copeland

He was a terrific bloke. He's going to be missed.

Adam Haluska

He just made a terrific shot. There's not much we can do about it now.

Jeff Ruland

If they don't get into the NIT, they should do away with the NIT. They're a terrific team.

Jen Niebling

I thought we were really terrific in the first half.

Scott Johnson

I thought Gavin was terrific having been out for so long.

J. M. Roberts

Give Villanova credit, they're a terrific team. They (made) some big-time plays.

Jeff Moorad

a terrific part of our organization's history, and presumably, a part of its future.

Kevin Henderson

It's not typical now to have a terrific rainfall every 10 days.