Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is ample research that demonstrates that a rigorous curriculum for all students not just high achievers leads to better opportunities after high school.

Samuel Larsen

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.

Under Modi's leadership, Gujarat will be able to achieve rural development in a manner in which it has not been achieved previously in India.

Under current economic conditions, we have to position ourselves on world markets and thanks to a structure of this sort we could achieve a competitive position.

Unless we are of one accord, we are just beating the bushes coming to these meetings and accomplishing nothing.

Unless we achieve meaningful success here, we cannot say we are a winner in the next-generation console battle.

We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.

We lost seven starters last year and have a different group now. But they want a state championship and with four undefeated wrestlers on our squad I think we can achieve that goal also.

Don Young

HP management argues that the cost savings inherent in this deal are significant and that a stronger enterprise computing company will emerge. We, however, believe that the issue is not whether management can achieve their cost savings target of $2.5 billion. The more important issue is how much revenue will be lost from the acquired Compaq business,

Dan Wheldon

I achieved a lot at Andretti Green Racing,

I was asked by Governor Bush. What an honor to be asked to serve under Jeb Bush. Everything Florida is doing is right. You've got strong accountability, and you're closing the achievement gap.

I thought we exceeded our initial expectations. When we started off training for the season, we didn't think we were going to have that much (success). Then (at the end) I thought we achieved more than anyone thought we would.

I think we had a nice meet. The kids swam well at different times during the meet. We just weren't as consistent as I had hoped. To get there was a great accomplishment for these kids and hopefully we can get more next year.

Gordon Brown

I think we'll achieve something this week. There's still a long way to go and we'll try and make some progress in the next two or three days.

George Martin

I think we will achieve a real sense of drama with the music. The audience will feel as though they are actually in the room with the band.

Joel Quenneville

I think we've had about seven or eight games all year long that have been for first place. It's the first time we've achieved it. A huge win. Probably . . . not probably - it was our biggest win of the year.

I think what George Mason has done is the greater accomplishment. Once Penn was by North Carolina, because of the other upsets they were playing teams that were comparable to them and teams they knew they could beat.

I think that Ford has been committed to being an environmentally sound company for years, but they've been short on real commitments to achieve that lofty promise. Hopefully, there is more to come.

I think a lot of people might consider humans to be at the pinnacle of evolutionary lineage -- that we have achieved an advanced state as a species, and we have basically become the end-game. But what we found indicates that the species -- particularly when it comes to the brain, which is perhaps our most defining feature -- is still evolving.

I think both sides were anxious that progress that was already achieved not be risked by this (overtime issue) going further than it's already gone.

Mary Pierce

I think before when I was first coming out on the tour and young, you know, you're very hungry to achieve and to have success and to make money, to win tournaments, to get a high ranking, just to be noticed and get contracts. All those kind of things you just get caught up with. For me now it's different because I have achieved a lot of great things in my career. I don't play for those things anymore now.

Mike Holmgren

I think any time you can achieve some balance on offense, it creates problems for the defense. As soon as you become one-dimensional, then any defense can focus in and get you stopped.

I think it's remarkable for a team to go on the road at Hudson and then go on the road at Mayfield and do the job they have done. It will be nice to get home on our field next week, but winning three of these four road games was quite an achievement for us.

Kenenisa Bekele

It gives me a lot of motivation to achieve the double for the last time. It not only brings glory to my country but to myself. It's a wonderful opportunity.

It had been a difficult year, but to get 20 wins was a big accomplishment. There were many times this season when we could have thrown in the towel, but we never did that. I couldn't be more proud.

Rachel Tucker

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!

Sherry Lansing

I always thought if I was lucky enough to achieve the dreams I had in the movie business ... and to be economically secure, that I wanted to give back. I wanted to have a third chapter that was about giving back and about the things I cared about, and also I wanted to have fun.

James Dolan

I always listen to the fans....I just don't necessarily do what they want me to do. I'm going to stick with it until we stop making progress or until we achieve our goal. One or the other.

He works harder and harder each year. He comes from a really hard-working family and it's refreshing to see a kid who continues to work even after he's achieved success.

He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.

He's changed compensation plans, changed the nature of incentives for portfolio managers, introduced additional discipline in terms of how research was done and how risk was managed within the portfolios, and he takes a very strong personal hand in how we achieve our performance goals.

Craig Patrick

He hasn't achieved what we thought he'd achieve, based on the way he played two years ago. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of explanations for why things haven't gone that well this year. But a lot of guys haven't played up to the level that we'd anticipated.

He did tell me that 'In Cold Blood' scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. That's how he phrased it. He achieved fame, money, everything a writer ever, ever wants in the world, and it ruined his life.