Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tenet achieved another strong quarter of improved pricing and tight cost control strengthening the foundation of our business as we enter 2006. Despite this considerable progress on the pricing and cost fronts, our results for the fourth quarter and full year 2005 were adversely impacted by continuing declines in patient volumes and stubbornly high levels of bad debt expense. We believe our ability to successfully reverse this volume erosion is limited by the continuing overhang of government litigation and investigation issues. The resolution of these issues remains among our highest priorities.

Jeffrey Rosen

Temperament, conviviality, moderation and the ability to get along with your colleagues are as important as ideology, ... was able to achieve unanimity on the most important decisions of his era simply by encouraging his fellow justices to live in the same boarding house, and discussing cases over glasses of Madeira.

Sometimes that can make all the difference in the world -- the ability to have another couple people in the morning or at the end of the day.

Flip Saunders

Sometimes it's natural to take a step back a bit. It just depends on the flow of the game. But the one thing he does -- and a lot of our other guys do -- when it comes time to clamp down, he has the ability to do that.

Some people raised questions about bringing in players from junior sides and their ability to perform at this level, but it is a measure of our progress that our players are disappointed with coming away from Gretna with just one point.

Jeff Pentland

Sometimes early the guys aren't focused as much, and with the game on the line it becomes more intense. I think we've shown the ability when the game is close and late, and our at-bats have gotten better. We'd like to keep that going for nine innings, but we haven't done that.

Bill Belichick

Sometimes, maybe some of the guys at that position, because of expectation, are put into situations before they're ready to have success, (and) that affects their confidence and their ability to develop.

See, that's something that we can get better at defending. I'm going to bring that up before we play them again and say that they do have the ability to score.

Wade Boggs

sees a guy not run out a ball or loaf after a fly or not go first-to-third or second-to-home because he's just trotting, it's disturbing. I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

Mary Eddy

Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done; but distrust of one's ability to gain the goodness desired and to bring out better and higher results, often hampers the trial of one's wings and ensures failure at the outset.

John Farrell

Ruben has a complete understanding of our development approach and proven ability to communicate and nurture this process. His extensive knowledge of delivery mechanics and effective teaching techniques has made an impact on a number of pitchers at all levels of the organization.

Ryan Brown comes to us out of New Jersey and the PDA soccer club. His speed and work rate will be a great addition. His ability to beat players on the dribble as well as the pass will cause real problems for opponents. He has a genuine desire to make a team better. How can a coach not be excited about that?

Rusty earned the respect and admiration of fellow drivers and fans with his engaging personality and unquestioned racing ability - attributes that will continue to entertain race fans.

Russia's treatment of Mr. Pope since his arrest raises serious concerns about the safety and security of American business travelers in Russia and about our ability to protect the health and welfare of American citizens who may be traveling or living in Russia.

Michael Palin

Ronnie was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh.

Noah Webster

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

Louis L'Amour

Much of command is the ability to take command.

Mitch Albom

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

The girls all kept their composure, performed to the best of their ability today. We were able to increase our team total a little bit. We are still on the increase. We still have a little work. You don't want to peak too soon. They are right on target.

Jim Gibbons

The GAS Act is another step toward reducing our dependency on foreign sources of oil and promoting our domestic ability to meet our modern-day energy needs. By increasing our number of refineries we will be able to boost our production capabilities and close the gap between supply and demand.

The goal of our 'Hear Music Debut' CD series is to introduce talented, emerging artists to music fans seeking unique, new music experiences. The incredible response by Starbucks customers to Antigone Rising reflects not only our customers' strong appetite for discovering quality music but also demonstrates Starbucks' ability to leverage our unique marketing and distribution platform to the benefit of sales at traditional retail. We are extremely pleased to be working with Lava to share this special album with traditional music retailers seeking new and exciting music choices for their customers.

The Glass family will have the ability to take the incremental revenues and put it back into the team operations to improve our product. The fans want to see us be more competitive.

The economy has lost its ability to export and other problems such as high inflation are a result of that,

Jeremy White

The economy has improved substantially. People once again have a little disposable income and have the ability to dine out a little bit more often. Really, it's the fact that the quality has improved in the last few years in the pizza industry.

The economics of the industry are good. But my ability to predict what happens in negotiations over the last 25 years has not been good.

Paul Andrews

The Eddie's Kids foundation for 10 years has provided an opportunity for families and kids that would not have the ability to come to a game . . . We will continue doing business with the Eddie's Kids foundation.

The driving factor for me is having DC as one company together ourselves. Our ability to work more collaboratively with the whole studio is certainly a benefit.

Richard Preston

The dragonfly is an exceptionally beautiful insect and a fierce carnivore. It has four wings that beat independently. This gives it an ability to maneuver in the air with superb dexterity. A dragonfly can put on a burst of speed, stop on a dime, hover, fly backward, and switch direction in a flash. This is a hunting behavior known as hawking.

Alan Greenspan

The economic and financial world is changing in ways that we still do not fully comprehend, ... Policymakers accordingly cannot always count on an ability to anticipate potentially adverse developments sufficiently in advance to effectively address them.

The device itself with the repetitive grasp and release exercises helps to retrain the brain so there's actual reorganization going on within the brain, which helps promote the ability to use the hand functionally.

The games became easier to play, and I started understanding the game better. It became a goal of mine knowing that I had the ability to be one of the best. I just had to put my mind to it.

Doug Martin

The game came down to turnovers and their ability to run the ball on us. We did some really good things on offense. We're just still too young offensively to be where we want to be. We just couldn't rise up to the challenges that OU gave to us today. They played a great game.

Chris Dixon

The future of the music industry is really the ability to recognize that the 14- or 15-year-old today, who is that target audience, is more comfortable today operating off of a computer platform than most of the people who walk into record stores.