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achieving earnings growth guidance per pleased progress toward
We are pleased with the progress toward achieving our earnings growth objective. We are reaffirming our 2006 earnings guidance of $1.25 to $1.35 per share. Richard Kelly
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We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance. J. Taylor
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We acknowledge that achieving success in Japan will not come easily or quickly for Xbox. But we are confident that because Xbox 360 is the most powerful video game and entertainment system, delivering the best content for Japanese gamers, enabled by the online capability of Xbox Live, we will earn more of their business moving forward. I am excited and honored to take on this role. Takashi Sensui
achieving goals players results terms
We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set. Rahul Dravid
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Whether or not he's going to sit there and outline his entire (State of the State) proposal, he's not going to do that. Achieving consensus is the point of the Legislature. They're here to conduct the business of the people.
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We feel all the ingredients are in place for (rapid) economic growth. We are confident of India achieving growth of 8-9 per cent in (the year to March 2007).
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We're just focused on achieving our goals, and that's to continue to get better for the playoffs. Jerry Stackhouse
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Major shifts in transportation priorities are essential to achieving energy independence and maintaining national security, ... A serious commitment to rail and transit has been a missing element in the U.S. strategy to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil.
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Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.
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Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.' Louise Leakey
becomes behind difficult hit judge potential
The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation. Gary Owens
becomes blessed darkness great himself inevitably liberates mind noble pure
The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.
becomes consider dream fair fun game ordinarily people plunder property themselves
Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding, E. O. Wilson
becomes boats growth lift market price rising sales tides
Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.
becomes body high joy kindness quiet rather regard spiritual treat
When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego. Debbie Ford
becomes city katrina orleans population question rebuild
When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.
becomes brings committees freedom lead opposite people pressure stay success
Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free. Nick Park
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Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
dream cities soul
You have been the last dream of my soul.
dream years mind
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?
dream mistake philosophical
Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.
dream fighting cities
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
dream rain eye
She forgot to be shy at the moment, in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising; and looked at him with eyes which assuredly, in association with her patient face, her fragile figure, her spare dress, and the wind and rain, did not turn him from his purpose of helping her.
dream heart night
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last I did, thank Heaven! - and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.
dream character wings
And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.
dream animal bird
Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.
dream
I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun. Charles Stuart Calverley
equity fixed fund holding income mutual period
The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short. Kenneth Fisher
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We feel that the blockbuster sale of RMA to NCO Group is an indication of transactions to come as private equity looks toward a sale as a way to profit from investments made a number of years ago. Mark Russell
equity fact good hit needs owner principle restore taking
Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
equity home sell within year
Should you need to sell the home within a year or two there is not a lot of equity there.
equity governs law
There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature, and of nations. Edmund Burke
equity grew guys money number pay private
Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money. Gerry Schwartz
equity home loan parents plus question
The question for parents is: Is it better to take out a PLUS loan or is it better to take out a home equity loan? They need to look at all their options.
equity helps job private produce
Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
equity financial million returning tonight
Because of the cooperative's financial soundness, tonight we are returning over $ 1.8 million of your equity back to you.
everyday existence ultimate
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. Alan Watts
everyday looks conservative
I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara. Chloe Sevigny
everyday acting actors
There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous. Cary Elwes
everyday goes-on want
I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified Catherine Zeta-Jones
everyday important desire
I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder. Elizabeth Barton
everyday everyday-life
SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life. Bill Nye
everyday world way
Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
everyday way life-is
Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that? Barbet Schroeder
everyday doubt one-day
I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world. Arthur C. Clarke
future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
hard-times facts want
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
hard-work easy-work problem
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. Alan Perlis
hard-work jealous thinking
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. Alain Prost
hard-work acting joyful
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. Al Pacino
hard-work actors today
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it. Akshay Kumar
hard-work mind lasts
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. David McCullough
hard-work mean pursuit-of-happiness
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.
hard-work thinking focus
Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work. David Krumholtz
hope balance heirs
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.
hope expectations heirs
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
hope heart lovely
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
hopes-and-fears seasons
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
hope courage giving-up
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. Chester W. Nimitz
hope soul faster
Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
hopefully last strong struggled weekend
We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season. Chris Johnson
hope minutes run
Where is he? It's his first day, and he's already 20 minutes late. I hope someone is going to make him run laps.
hope
I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope. Maria Bamford
kong lowering nor
We should not be lowering the expectations, nor lowering the ambitions in the round, ... Hong Kong is not the end of process. Rob Portman
kong
I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.
kong next port screening
While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing. Charles Schumer
kong kung street
We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting. Jaime King
kong third
At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series. Victor Koo
kong laboratory result test
The result of test from the Hong Kong laboratory was positive.
kong realize size
For Hong Kong and Singapore, in fact, they have been able to realize the size of economy.
kong protesting seen three
In three years of protesting in Hong Kong I have never seen anything like this,
kong needs society
Hong Kong needs a harmonious society and so does the movie industry.
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image.
management function greater
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C. Northcote Parkinson
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.
manipulative
I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manhattan
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! Ed Koch
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
savings
That's not a real savings for the taxpayers.
savings thinner
It's thinner than conventional asphalt, and that's where the savings comes in.
small-business enjoy taxes
The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes. Chris Alexander
small-numbers community energy
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists... David Suzuki
small-details details add
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression. Cary Grant
small-acts millions
A small act is worth a million thoughts. Ai Weiwei
smallness
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness. Barry Diller
small-acts bless acts-of-service
Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
small-objects hands eggs
There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof. Diana Gabaldon
small-changes lasting-change healthy
It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body. Bob Harper
small stuff turned
When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young. Nikki Sixx
society disease want
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
society facts hints
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. John Roberts
society used states
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. Edith Wharton
society cleaning neighborhood
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
society might ornaments
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. Charles Lamb
society alive intimacy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. Arthur Balfour
society
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. J. B. Priestley
society
I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed. Lee Hall
society might firsts
The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society. Boman Irani
streets street-corners corners
I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop. Al Jarreau
streets right-road
You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved. Bob Marley
street
I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions. Beeban Kidron
street
The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling. Nas
street time yorkers
New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!' Elaine Stritch
streets-of-paris age paris-fashion
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself. Anne Rice
streets walks stills
I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security. Doug E. Fresh
street york
I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them. Dan Jenkins
street
He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.
works
The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
workshop
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it. Cy Coleman
works
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement. Ira Glass
works
My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
works
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating. Val McDermid
works
My latest works are these things with light bulbs. Jim Hodges
works
If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around. Frank Thomas
works
I think it's the only way it works politically,
works
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't. Christopher Walken