Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Sullivan

Figure out who is driving revenues and profits in the various business units, and get close to those people. Get an appreciation for what their priorities and problems are, and be willing to act as a sounding board. Once you become known outside your area, the board will hear about it, and begin to see you as someone who can handle more than what's on your plate right now.

Finally, a company is taking action to remove excess capacity UPM takes the charge but the whole sector benefits.

Finally, a company is taking action to remove excess capacity ... UPM takes the charge but the whole sector benefits.

Expect more of the same choppy activity as the Dow meanders around the 10,000 level. Unfortunately, the leadership is expected to remain very narrow as the negative (market) breadth problem continues.

John Meyers

Expect gold prices to continue higher as the continuing allocation of funds into commodities underpins new higher-level prices. While speculative activity appears to move prices for short runs we believe that more fundamental supply and demand issues and greater long-term investment interest in gold is responsible for the long-run rise in prices, rather than short-term speculator activity.

Expectations of Fed action have gone though the roof. The market is looking for two 25-basis-point moves and one 50-basis-point move before the presidential election.

Expectations for the holiday shopping season have been pretty high, but actual sales seem to have fallen a bit short, which is hurting shares.

Nandan Nilekani

Expatriates are returning because India is hot. There is an increasing feeling that significant action in the technology industry is moving to India.

Exuberant levels of consumer confidence, household borrowing and domestic spending continued to fuel domestic economic activity and enhance business confidence.

Face-to-face classes and the Internet support program were helpful because participants were taught how to make changes in eating and activity to immediately reverse small weight gains.

Faith in sacrifice, charity, and austerity is also called SAT. The action for the sake of the Supreme is verily termed as SAT.

Failure to act now... will leave us empty handed when a pandemic strikes and will cause needless deaths,

Michael Gregory

Factory activity likely cooled slightly in December, but remains robust.

Fans just want to be closer to the action. It doesn't matter who you beat anymore.

Denzel Washington

Family is life; acting is making a living.

Condoleezza Rice

But the information that there were plots under way that might relate to the pre-election period came from multiple sources, and active multiple sources.

But on the other hand, employers are hiring quicker these days, sometimes within a week of posting an opening. My advice to applicants is that they need to act quickly on any job in which they are interested.

But on the ground we have not seen these steps turned into action regarding disarmament and identification - all is still to be done.

But maybe the action on Derek's pitches trumps that.

But like anything in nature, sometimes they don't act like we expect them to.

But I want to make it quite clear that Japan will not cancel its research, whatever dangerous activities or interference may occur.

Dweezil Zappa

But I've done some soundtrack things with my brother for stuff, and I'm hoping to get into actual scoring. That's really where I'd like to end up.

Both state and federal support is critical to building a real ethanol industry. Real action is needed, and the $150 million per year President Bush promised is wholly insufficient.

Moses Mendelssohn

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

Both sides have boxed themselves into a corner. I think they were going through the motions. This dialogue may well be the final act of diplomacy before the curtain lowers for a referral vote.

Scott Ritter

Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing.

Donald Tsang

Both the central government and this administration are actively leading this community towards universal suffrage in an orderly fashion. I am 60 years of age. I certainly want to see universal suffrage taking place in Hong Kong in my time.

Andy Serkis

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

Alison Gopnik

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

Penelope Cruz

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.

Penelope Cruz

My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.

Philip Glenister

My brother Robert wanted to act from a very early age, and there was always a part of me that said we couldn't have two actors in the family because our parents would go mental. So I became a runner for the Robert Stigwood Organisation and, one way or another, worked my way up to movie publicist.

Pedro Pascal

The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.