Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanna Bonta

Society's indolent, mediocre, or even criminal are not hated with daily public fury reserved for those who accomplish and achieve.

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

At this time, I feel that this is the best course of action for me to take for the Rutgers basketball program and for my family. I feel we were able to accomplish a lot here, but it is time for me and my family to move forward. I have enjoyed coaching the Rutgers basketball team for the past five seasons, and have had the opportunity to work with some tremendous young men.

Chauncey Billups

That's a great feat. It feels good to accomplish that, especially in a storied franchise like this with the Bad Boys.

Every tour leading up to the World Cup is important as we want to win everything so that the confidence level of the boys is sky high when they arrive in the West Indies. And to achieve that goal, we need to have the best players to accomplish the task. In this background, it is a body blow for us that our strike bowler will not be available for the Sri Lanka tour.

Ayn Rand

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

Benjamin Disraeli

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Byron Scott

He was motivated. He was coming home, he had about 500 people coming to see him today, so he wanted to win the game and play well. We were able to accomplish both.

I agree he should be severely punished, but you do not need to execute him to accomplish that.

Any budgetary adjustment is aimed at organizing a better and more frugal Olympics. The Chinese government's principle is, spend less ... accomplish more.

Paul Coffey

A night like this wouldn't have been possible without the help of a lot of people. It takes a team to accomplish the banners that are up here in this building.

Jim Barnes

As determined as you are, you could accomplish anything, and running a marathon is more mental than physical.

Our aim in all these operations is to capture where possible, in order to use the intelligence value that these detainees may have for us, ... In every instance when our forces go into operations like this, we provide them with the authority to use whatever force is necessary to accomplish their missions. We have to expect that in those circumstances, casualties do occur. We have not suffered any casualties at this point, but casualties have occurred on the other side.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

The mourning process is not over. That will go on for a long period of time. I think he felt there were things he had to accomplish still this year, and he had to get back to the task of doing it.

Are you selling calves at weaning to go to a feedlot, are you trying to accomplish a lot of carcass quality in your genetics, are you looking to produce replacement heifers or are you selling bulls?

Eminent domain is not necessary to accomplish urban renewal, but local governments have been trained to use it as a tool of first resort for assemblage of large-scale projects. However, the government's role is not to be a developer, but rather to facilitate conditions that are friendly to business - the use of condemnation takes this role too far.

Each individual has his own set of goals and if they can accomplish those goals, then the team will be all right. That's the only way you can approach it and you'll see where you end up.

Each brand leader is focused on ensuring that the brand relationship with its customer is strong and differentiated. To accomplish this differentiation, we plan to offer her even more unique product and talk with her in new and exciting ways.

Florida is very proud of what we've been able to accomplish in offering universal pre-kindergarten to all children. At this point we are not even through the first year of the program and yet we've already enrolled over 105,000 children.

Scott Drew

There's only so much you can accomplish in practice. We accomplished all that. And we made it through as a team, and still like each other.

There was a large number of educated and accomplish men among my countrymen, and in them the love of music and art was very marked.

Sometimes it takes one at-bat in one game for the light to go on. You can accomplish a lot by doing what we were doing with Duffy today.

Sometimes people overlook my stats, but I'm not like the kind of guy to go out there to get a bunch of attention anyway, ... I just go out there and play. I had over 1,300 yards (combined in 2004) in 13 games and 10 touchdowns, and it is not easy in the NFL to accomplish that.

Sarah came out of nowhere. We knew she was fast in practice but she hadn't run the 100 yet in competition and for her to accomplish this is just fantastic.

Realistically, we thought of this as a game that we should be able to come in and win. With the experience that we have back and with what this team was able to accomplish a year ago (when IUS qualified for the NAIA National Tournament), we had high hopes coming into the year.

Our design engineers worked with suppliers to accomplish a very significant mass reduction and consequent cost reduction in the radio. It allows us to pass these valuable savings on to our customers.

Aristotle

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious, and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and terror, with which to accomplish its purgation of these emotions.

At the beginning of the season we set our goal of winning the state title. When you set your goals high and finally accomplish it, that feels great.

At that time, we were able to implement processes so businesses could still be served. It's a dramatic example of what a group of business people can accomplish when they have common goals.

At this point, the outhaul is a temporary activity giving us some breathing room to accomplish the central landfill expansion,

At this juncture, given the apparent strength in demand and the narrowing margin on unused resources, I am focused on making sure that inflation and inflation expectations remain well anchored. I do not know how much policy firming will be needed to accomplish this objective.

Don't ever think you can't accomplish something if you put your mind to it.