Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Bohn

We want to stay ahead of the competitive curve.

Lawrence Summers

The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the years ahead than it has been in the past, when debt was rapidly increasing, ... With $3.6 trillion in debt outstanding, even a 3 basis point (0.03 percentage point) reduction in federal borrowing costs will ultimately produce savings of more than $1 billion per year.

Marv Levy

We appreciate his efforts and wish him well in what lies ahead in his career.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to what we saw in 2002, the counts of cases that we're having now are ahead of what we had in 2002, least in the city.

Zina Garrison

We are pretty much considered the underdogs here but I have a lot of confidence in the young women that are here and we are really looking ahead to a good match.

John McDonnell

We are ahead of where I thought we would be by two points. Florida State has a lot of great bullets and Texas and LSU, but we are on line to do what we are capable of doing.

John Sheehan

We are ahead of the curve on this.

Brian Halla

We are ahead of schedule on the return to profits plan we announced on May 5.

Robin Clifford

We are ahead of schedule for Sunday's deadline, and by midnight Sunday, (all) Yugoslav forces will be gone,

Michel Patini

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Maajid Nawaz

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Donna Shalala

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

Bob Hamilton

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that hard a sport. That has all changed as the game has grown - especially among young people. There is a lot more respect for the players and the sport. People now are aware of how difficult it is to be good at golf.

David Patterson

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

Mark Foster

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

Dwight Davis

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

Patrick Page

The point of 'Othello,' among other points, is that it is impossible to know another human being,

Gary Bauer

We are looking forward to a vibrant competition among politicians for these voters. No one owns them.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Chin-Ning Chu

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

David Rusenko

To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Mike Rush

When you say goodbye to so many great volunteers, it's always hard, but it's good to know there's always a new generation of leaders emerging.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

John Malone

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Brendan Barnicle

What's interesting is that Microsoft is now more of a leverage story.

John Drury

We leverage as much as we can from our brethren.

Dave Combs

We don't have a lot of leverage to stop annexations.

Quinten Fuentes

He is really a strong wrestler. A lot stronger than me. I was just able to use my leverage to get him.

Selim Bingol

They have a fiber-rich network. We see a big opportunity to leverage that for video and other services.

Andrea Williams

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so they should remain profitable,

Michael Myers

It's been pretty impressive. He's long and tall. He's down there getting leverage on every play. That's why he's so good.

Lori Lucas

There's a lot of room for individuals to leverage investments in their plans to get the most out of their account.

Pat Comack

AT&T still has a lot of leverage because Comcast can't tender for anything.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Scott Snyder

We still see plenty of upside. That region is still showing the most value.

Doug McCarter

We've been in this situation plenty of times this season.

Tom Elliott

This neighborhood will have plenty to say on this, don't worry.

William M. Thackeray

Though small was your allowance,You saved a little store:And those who save a littleShall get a plenty more.

Hugh Miller

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.

Tim Howard

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

Ken Dunham

There are plenty of ways to get around all of those things.

Brian Ditto

There are plenty of rumors going round. But that's it.

Alexander McCall Smith

There is plenty of work for love to do.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chloe Sevigny

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

David Allen

A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.

Dave Chappelle

I got a lot of positive people around me.

David Seabury

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Tim Hearn

We're sensitive to consumers, we recognize there's more out of people's pocketbooks,

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Brad Lancaster

We're 20 to 40 students away from being a Recognized district. It was close, but we're not taking any chances.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Scott Nelson

Retailers haven't told us they wanted to be down there.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

John Longworth

As retailers had feared, the spending surge was short-lived.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

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.

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

David Douglass

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

Bruce Sterling

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Andrei Platonov

I have a trend of my own.

C. L. R. James

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Daymond John

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

David Douglass

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations...

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

Bruce Sterling

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

Jane Krakowski

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

Dylan Moran

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Andrei Platonov

I have a trend of my own.