Famous Quotes & Sayings

Most of the exploratory dollars are going to go to the great big prospects. And I think this will really impact the oil service companies' ability to continue their profit growth.

Most of all, we want to know we are performing to the best of our ability as a team.

Merlyn has demonstrated his ability to lead the agency over the past six months and has expressed his willingness and desire to continue to do so on a long-term basis.

Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.

Microsoft is going to give the ability to take software, implement it and offer real-time risk-based approval of mortgages. That's not happening for most lenders today.

Microsoft would no longer have guaranteed placement on users' desktops. That would mean its ability to leverage the desktop in terms of selling other services would be severely reduced, or it would have to negotiate directly to get that leverage.

Microsoft's vulnerability to the PC market reaffirms our belief that Microsoft's continued success depends on its ability to transition itself from a desktop software company to an enterprise solution vendor.

Mark Anderson

Microsoft is the perfect canary because they are 100 percent vulnerable to IP (intellectual property) theft, and IP theft has turned out to be the key question in China's ability to go forward.

Microsoft is still not coming to grips with what its own people were saying -- about their ability to set prices, their position in the browser market, and whether the browser was a separate product -- when these things were occurring,

Mike has brought to the U.S. operations exactly what was needed during the last couple of years. Mike has the ability and the management confidence to delegate responsibility to the best people in his organization, and develop and promote them. This new assignment will give us the opportunity to apply those skills to our overseas operations.

Miguel Baez has improved enormously from last year. He can be devastating. Ayers has running ability that goes beyond description.

Michelle is an excellent 3-point shooter, as she demonstrated this past season at Western Nebraska where she shot 39.7 percent from behind the arc. Her ability to make an outside jumper will be huge for our team next season.

Michele has the ability to dominate in the paint. She's a very good defender and one of those girls that doesn't make very many mistakes.

Mexico today requires proven ability, an experienced government, a competent team.

We jumped out on a 16-0 run, but I thought it was our ability to defend, too. We turned it up a notch defensively in the second half.

We just couldn't get it done. We got guys on base. We had the ability. We had the guys in the lineup we wanted. We just couldn't do it.

Adam Cole

You can give them the ability to get more junk in there, for better or worse; they like it.

You just have to go in there and just play. When you go in, your team is counting on you, especially in a critical situation. You have to go in there and perform to your ability not to let the team down.

Jeff Fisher

When you're evaluating a young quarterback, you look at his decision-making. You assume arm strength and ability to throw the ball are there.

We believe this compelling valuation offsets very real concerns about management's ability to develop a path out of the quagmire.

Kyle Hall

We believe the online photo industry will become more closely tied to all forms of digital media entertainment and the PNI Digital Media Platform offers retailers with photo operations the ability to provide these services to their customers. Convergence of digital hardware devices will make all these different media aspects reside alongside each other at the device level, for example, today it is digital music players, digital cameras, PDA's, smart phones and PC's - tomorrow it will also include your game console, your HDTV and your DVR. Having the retailers be able to produce on-demand media products that range from music to photo's will allow them to retain their control of the vast majority of sales in these media channels.

Kele Okereke

We had lots of ideas but not necessarily the ability to execute them.

We had great energy tonight, on both ends. We worked really, really hard to limit them to one shot and take away what they wanted to do. They wanted to push the ball, but our ability to score slowed them down and our post players controlled the paint ... It was a total team effort. I'm so proud of them.

Steve Fisher

We had two down-to-the-wire games with (CSU). Colorado State makes shots and makes hard shots. They have the ability to score in a lot of places and a lot of ways and that concerns me. We have to make sure we dictate the pace by guarding hard. We can't have a race to 100 points. We have to guard.

We had to stop deliveries to those stores even though we had orders for replenishment. Because of the flexibility in our WMS, we were able to surgically shut them off in the system. As those stores reopened, we had the ability to set up waves by geographic area to get them back in stock when they were ready.

We have a good variety of stores and are pleased with our ability to stay full and offer a good variety of shops, ... Things have changed around us, but it's not a bad area.

We have a lot of kids going in with the ability to do a lot at this tournament. They are ready as they can be. I have a good feeling about the weekend.

We have a lot of issues with our team now. Our guys haven't been consistent during the season and now we're battling some psychological issues that are impacting our ability to perform.

You are almost honored as a coach to have two guys of that quality, not only in terms of tennis ability but also because of the people that they are. You wish that you could keep them for another four years.

We've got some speed this year, so we're going to try to utilize that. We've got more kids who can score some goals. Last year, a lot of our goals were off set pieces. (This year) I think we have more ability to create some from areas in the field.

We've got some guys back there who can bring some offensive ability and make some offensive plays. That's part of being a good offensive team. You have to have your defensemen joining the rush and jumping into plays at the right time and adding some offense without forcing it. That's something young guys grow into.

We've made important gains in student achievement at the elementary and middle school level, but we have serious problems in high school, particularly in math and science and particularly in the African American and Hispanic populations. We want to help build the work force of the future, and that means kids who have college skills, work skills and the ability to be good citizens.

George Ryan

We've lost the ability to carry 2,000 or 3000 tons on some of the 1000-footers (freighters) since last year, ... That's a loss of about $100,000 on every voyage.