Famous Quotes & Sayings

Since then I was convinced that the VHA operations could not achieve a sufficient critical mass now, or in the medium term, to meet my professional goals as an agent of change nor my projections of future compensation.

She's achieved a certain kind of serenity. She didn't used to listen much. She knew what she should do and went about it. Now she listens.

She learned tolerance and had to endure lots of knots and shampoos. And she didn't want to brush her hair because she said it really hurt. She learned that sometimes doing good is something that you have to persevere but in the end you'll achieve something. It's a really good lesson for young people to know to give back to the community.

We have in our negotiations today achieved a breakthrough which we hope will lead to meaningful reform in these discriminatory practices,

Mike Connolly

We have high goals this year. We want to do better than that. Everybody knows what we can achieve and we're working that much harder.

Bruno Bettelheim

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

We are talking about maybe as much as 15 per cent increase in arrivals yearly, and the only way we are going to achieve that, is if we aggressively market, not only the destination, but the hotels themselves.

We're happy with this result. It means a lot. It would be a shame if we lost the advantage achieved by this draw.

This promotion recognizes the considerable contribution Bruce has made to our company's transition to local search since joining us in the third quarter of 2005. He has put in place the structure needed to achieve our goal of being #1 in local search. Our team has a much tighter focus and the authority and accountability they need to achieve our objectives.

This wire is the future of our company. This is probably the first second-generation wire sold by anyone, anywhere in the world. That's the major achievement here.

There are ways to achieve the objective with a degree of flexibility. The trustee should be able to stand in the shoes of the client and provide for all the financial extras that the client would be doing, had they been alive.

Losing the state championship, that's the highest level of achievement in basketball and we lost that. This year, we're getting another shot. A lot of times you don't get a second chance. We've got to come out. It's a game for revenge.

Los Angeles Unified has quickly become the nationwide leader in promoting innovative public school options like charter schools to tackle the challenges of low student achievement and over-crowding. The school district is to be commended for supporting high-quality charter schools for the many families that continue to demand them.

Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Reed Hastings

(Last year) was another year of solid achievement and continued momentum. We enter 2006 confident we can reach our goal of 20 million subscribers within the 2010 to 2012 time frame.

Last year we played with the purpose to prove that we are a really good team. It was a team that was highly motivated and achieved a taste of success as a result. Our players want to continue with those experiences. They want to advance the program to a higher level than where we currently are. We're well aware that there is a lot more for us to do.

Kevin Johnson

Let's continue to impress customers and partners with our innovation, and drive satisfaction to levels we've never achieved before. Let's also stay focused on our priorities as we make this transition and align our organization for the future.

Many companies today are looking to consolidate diverse supply chain systems into a unified process. Tight integration of Manhattan Associates' Integrated Logistics Solutions can improve efficiency and visibility across the supply chain and increase productivity, helping Build-A-Bear Workshop generate value and achieve strategic advantage--both today and in the long term.

Terry Semel

set partnerships to achieve a strategic business objective.

Seagate is excited about the opportunity to achieve greater scale, reduce supply chain costs, and leverage combined R&D efforts across a broader product set. With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Harry Reid

Second, the Bush administration must advise the Iraqi people that United States military forces will not stay indefinitely in Iraq and that it is their responsibility to achieve the broad-based and sustainable political environment essential for defeating the insurgency.

Second-quarter results are on track with our expectations. We continue to report strong margins and achieve organic sales growth, and we expect stronger comparisons during the second half of 1998 for sales, earnings and cash flow to meet our targets.

Security cannot be achieved through force -- through the use of force -- but through the creation of the an environment that is helpful to create confidence between the parties,

Francis Collins

Sequencing the chimp genome is a historic achievement that is destined to lead to many more exciting discoveries with implications for human health,

So far, we have achieved our objectives on or ahead of schedule,

So far this month we achieved 1.58 for the average of the first 18 days, and hope we can be for the rest of month we'll be close to 1.5-1.6. For the second half, we hope to do 1.6, maybe a little bit higher towards the end of the year.

Lance Armstrong

So it was a good field, but the most important thing was that the team came up with a very difficult plan for me. Lance helped me a lot and having an idol, a mentor like that to come up with a plan and for me to put the icing on the cake was a huge accomplishment. It taught me that if I believe in myself, I can push my own limits. I hope to achieve that here, next year even more, and hopefully arrive at the top eventually.

David Allen

So in order to achieve clarity and be fully and positively engaged in what you're doing, you must (1) know the goal or outcome you're intending and (2) decide and take the next physical move to propel you in that direction.

Solid financial results and excellent prospects for future success enable us to continue our long history of consistent dividend payments for our shareholders. We continue to achieve success in our core business activities especially the growth in loans, which becomes the foundation for our future earnings prospects and provides the capability to provide dividend increases such as we're announcing today.

Eugene Debs

Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

She's worked really hard to achieve what she's accomplished.