Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have made a sustained commitment to strengthening and growing our relationships with minority and women-owned businesses in an effort to seek out expertise and skills from two of the fastest growing business segments, recognizing that our future success is dependent on our ability to build diverse supplier relationships today.

We have lost a lot of our forecasting ability on the island and that's an issue we will take to Ottawa during an election,

Carlos Sanchez

We have long assumed that if we educate patients and make them an active partner in the treatment of their disease, we should be able to dramatically improve their ability to take care of their disease.

We have left the floor to the American authorities not because we're not interested, but because the United States has a greater ability to act.

Virender Sehwag

The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.

Vladimir Kramnik

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

Virat Kohli

My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore.

Valerie Jarrett

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

Nathan Wolfe

The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it.

Lou Gramm

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

We are happy to announce that The Billings Food Bank has earned a 4-star rating for its ability to efficiently allocate and grow its finances. Less than a quarter of the charities we've rated have received our highest rating, indicating that The Billings Food Bank outperforms most charities in America in its efforts to operate in the most fiscally responsible way possible. This 'exceptional' rating from Charity Navigator differentiates The Billings Food Bank from its peers and proves that it's worthy of the public's trust.

Bob DuPuy

We are growing increasingly concerned about the District's ability to meet the agreed-upon December 31, 2005 deadline, by which date a number of critical tasks in the Baseball Stadium Agreement must be completed,

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

Bill Owens

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

Rick Perlstein

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.

Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

Evel Knievel

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Carly Fiorina

Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

Erwin McManus

I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

Erwin McManus

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

Curtis Jackson

I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.

What we have to be able to do is what the good teams do. Like the Detroit Pistons, they are a much better scoring team than last year, but they have the ability to stop you until they get their offense going.

We did well. We stuck with our ability to take people off the course at 51/2 hours. We gave people the option of getting on the bus and coming in or continuing on the course.

We are delighted that Paul has agreed to take on this role. He has demonstrated an extraordinary vision and skill over the past 12 years in his role at Tennis Australia and this, combined with his passion for golf, gives us great confidence in his ability to shape the future of the Australian Opens.

We are definitely concerned about management's ability to execute this upcoming turnaround.

John Sculley

The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.

Kelly Slater

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

Jane McGonigal

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.