Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane McGonigal

For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.

We had a number of choices but Rowan's efforts in the finals for Claremont over the last two games have been outstanding, so his ability to play up forward or through the midfield gives us a lot of options.

We are confident in the ability of all these guys, and we think they will give us some good innings throughout the season.

We are confident in our ability, ... We beat them three weeks ago over there and that is pretty fresh in our minds.

We are confident in our ability to negotiate a contract.

We are confident Congress will ultimately send the president a bill that does not undermine the ability of investigators and prosecutors to disrupt terrorist plots and combat terrorism effectively.

We are concerned that our ability to compete with businesses in other places in the county and state will be compromised. We are concerned that this proposal will create an island economy and that the island will struggle.

Phil Gramm

When they are through with the program they go back to Mexico, and they will take the skills they have acquired, they will take the money they have saved and it will give them the ability to help build the Mexican economy,

When you work on something and you do it to the best of your ability and you put it out there...you cross your fingers,

Tommy Amaker

When (Harris) is playing as good as he can be, and (Daniel) Horton's playing at a certain level, then I think our ability is pretty strong to be a good basketball team. Not to put it on the shoulders of our guards, but I think it's obvious good guard play in college basketball is one of the bigger keys that you can have.

Monica Crowley

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.

Nita Ambani

My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

Albert Einstein

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

When there aren't a lot of alternative routes to take, it means more late meetings, people miss meetings altogether, more stress from people when they get in - just less ability to be productive,

George Morgan

We want to be sure we have the ability to finish it. I want to know there's the foot soldiers to get it done.

We want to be accessible so it's easy for students to attend one of our centers. We consider this campus vital to our ability to serve the Cobb area.

We want those guys to take advantage of what that market delivers and support them in their ability to deliver it. The last thing that we want to do is start telling our banks' CEOs what they ought to be doing in their markets because we (in Columbus) don't have the market knowledge that they do.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace

To be a long-term player you have to have a lot of cash and the ability to innovate and produce those higher volumes.

Rosalynn Carter

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Marta

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Olivia Newton-John

I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.

George Cukor

If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.

Gary Zukav

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Sebastian Thrun

If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.

Tommy Mottola

Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.

Tom Brokaw

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

Sue Monk Kidd

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

Stuart Scott

I keep working out for me, but I also keep working out for my daughters. I want Taelor and Sydni to know that I'm still strong. I want to walk them both down the aisle. And I still plan to. I hope to. I don't know. That's what cancer robs you of. Cancer robs you of the ability to look past today.