Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Jefferson

We knew we had the ability to beat good teams on their floor. So we knew if we could just establish some consistency (at home) we could string together some wins.

We let the ability of the player dictate how fast he comes along. He's an advanced college hitter, and that makes a difference.

Kunal Kapoor

We have confidence in the team's ability because they have consistently outperformed as a Europe-only fund.

We have concerns about Milosevic's ability to cheat. We have serious doubts about the credibility of this process. The irregularities that have been reported today certainly cast doubt on the credibility of this process.

We're trying to improve our ability to conduct that kind of business on our site as a customer service to the citizens.

Bill Halter

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

The real story sitting in the background is about this explosion of data. The fact of the matter is that we haven't really addressed the ability to feed these progressively faster computers.

E. O. Wilson

The realization that the Total Available Market (TAM) is decreasing is really starting to hit home with players in this market. Depending on their market position, companies will need to take a hard look at their commitment to remaining in this business. Indeed, some companies' very survival may depend on their ability to diversify to new sectors beyond wireless infrastructure.

The reality of an economy in terminal decline is enveloping its ability on the diplomatic front and its influence in the region. They're trying to plug that role.

There are many females of ability to whom the business of instructing children is highly acceptable; and who would devote all their faculties to their occupation. For they would have no higher pecuniary object to engage their attention; and their reputation as instructors they would consider as important.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

David Maraniss

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

David Oyelowo

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.

Ben Bernanke

Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point.

Bill Nelson

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

Barry Humphries

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

Malcolm X

In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

Buzz Osborne

I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn't need to work again.

Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

Paul Johnson

We have to build new networks to support the Internet, for one simple reason, there isn't a single viewer in the audience today that's happy with their Internet performance. They're not happy with the performance of the bandwidth coming into their home or business. They're not happy with responsiveness of Web pages, they're not happy about the ability to not download fat files.

We have shown the ability to come back from deficits in recent games.

We have sent most of our ships to sea and are refueling in only very selected ports and with the use of tankers at sea because we are still not confident that we have complete ability to protect those ships in situations like this, ... By moving them out to sea, we do achieve that higher degree of the protection.

This sends such a message that we should think ability before disability.

This will give us the ability to build on the success we already have in the area.

This was a huge step forward for our program. We had a great tournament ,and the icing on the cake was our ability to hit five balls in play on a very demanding and challenging 18th hole while the two other teams we were trailing only hit one ball in play combined.

La'Roi Glover

The Panthers have the ability the run the football, and they have the best front four in the league.

The PAN party higher-ups, the senior officials and elected officials, don't trust him very much. They don't see him as ideologically reliable to the core values of the PAN. He's seen as a maverick. But clearly, if he gets stuck or tied up in those conflicts, that would impact on his ability to govern.

This really starts to talk about the ability to build relationships with consumers. It's no longer just a broad blast of emails that are going out, but it really becomes more focused on what you're trying to market to particular consumers or segments of your install base. And it really is focused on two-way communication. So if the consumer comes back to the Web site and expresses interest in certain products by looking at those, you want to re-market to those customers regarding the products that they expressed interest in.

This really leaves one concerned about the ability of us as a society to manage chronic conditions that ultimately become very costly to families and to the health system.

This shows an ability for Qantas to interact with a partially owned entity that has a network offering that is complementary to what Qantas offers, operated under a brand that Qantas supports.

The phones themselves have evolved and our ability to detect what type of device is much more sophisticated. That combination alone helps quite a bit. Today we can serve a very specific version of the application.

Wallace Spearmon

There are always going to be people who doubt your ability, ... No matter how successful you are, they're going to doubt your ability.

Damon Hill

When you get into a pack of cars, then you feel the problem worst, handicapping the driver and handicapping our ability to race. When there's a crosswind, the cars suffer badly as well, which makes them even more difficult to control. They are always fun to drive, but motor racing should be about the best drivers racing the best cars, which offers the best challenge, and my feeling now is that we have come to a bit of a cul-de-sac.