Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melanne Verveer

Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.

There could be demand for the technology developed through Higgins, because there are those enterprises that have no interest in adopting a Microsoft solution and want a viable alternative.

There have been studies showing that gay couples, because of their role in society and because they are often seen as second-class citizens, are more open to adopting children with special needs. Also, gay couples are not seen as the ideal family, so it's easier for them to foster kids with special needs, then later adopt them.

There is no longer any excuse for not adopting corporate IM. But businesses should establish policies for connecting with external parties, to ensure public IM services are used for real business purposes.

Nick Harkaway

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.

Penney's is definitely at the forefront of adopting all this new type of technology.

Jewish music has come an extremely long way since Bob Zimmerman changed his name to Dylan. Now you have Madonna adopting Jewish culture and making it pop, showing the Hebrew aleph on a backdrop in her concerts. It's an interesting phenomenon, and the festival is a bit of a manifestation that Jewish music is becoming a genre of sorts.

Edward Kennedy

Surely, we can have effective relationships with other nations without adopting a chip-on-the-shoulder foreign policy, a my-way-or-the-highway policy that makes all our goals in the world more difficult to achieve,

Antonio Villaraigosa

Stem cell research will be the key to unlocking the mysteries of illnesses that have afflicted our friends and families for generations, ... We need Washington to stop playing politics that could impact California's efforts to lead the nation in life saving research. We stand united in California urging Congress to pass Senator Feinstein's legislation adopting strong ethical standards while pushing forward on sensible research.

Some of these pets find new people to care for them, but most don't. I hope to continue adopting these animals, and try to find others who can as well.

Martin O'Malley

Marylanders have led the nation in adopting a balanced approach to revenues and investments because we know that in order to maintain and build the #1 public schools in the nation, we had to ask everyone to pay their fair share. We need Congress to do the same.

Pierre Pettigrew

I won't say they're all intolerant, ... Some of them are adopting our approach to cultural communities.

Bobby Cox

I think John sort of adopting him really made his year. Had a lot of faith in him.

Partners like Whirlpool are national leaders in energy efficiency. The ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award winners are leaders in adopting energy efficient technologies into their products and practices. They have shown year after year that energy efficiency is good for business and helps consumers save important energy resources while protecting the environment.

Partnering with some of the world's largest integrators to deliver this program will enable more customers to take advantage of the performance and cost savings available from adopting the most advanced OS on the planet.

Henry Charles Carey

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

We know that you're adopting a baby girl from India.

We can't afford to be complacent. If the industry doesn't embrace new technology, then we will be replaced. But, SCC is a technology that we are adopting enthusiastically.

Paul Bloom

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

Most market analysts are holding on to their economic or corporate projections while adopting a wait-and-see attitude to assess if oil prices will remain at current high levels.

Debra Wilson

When the boy's mother found out they were in a documentary, she lost it. She was fine with them adopting him and raising him, but not with them being in a documentary.

Joel Fuhrman

We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.

Robyn

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

The market timing is right. The mass market is really adopting digital photography now, and they?re looking for easier solutions. Digital printing in retail has been growing for some time, but it?s exploding this year.

Kevin Ashton

The Mercury All-In Solution was developed following feedback from some of the world's largest users of RFID. The more we looked into demand for a low cost, integrated RFID stand, the more we realized this solved a number of issues. For businesses adopting large-scale RFID systems with hundreds of RFID readers, there's no faster way to setup the readers and antennas -- it literally takes minutes to install.

Julius Genachowski

Small businesses were slower than large businesses in adopting broadband. One of the reasons was they were concerned with putting their customer lists online or in the cloud.

This situation calls for the company's going into crisis mode, adopting a degree of urgency that recognizes if things don't break right, the unthinkable could happen, that time is of the essence.

As carriers and handset vendors seek to drive greater adoption of 3G services, however, we believe the pace of these technology upgrades could drive a mobile handset inventory overhang, similar to that seen in 2003 as customers began adopting camera-equipped handsets.

Mohammad Khatami

Adopting unequal measures as the foundation for relations between countries and transforming ties between East and West into a class struggle between oppressors and oppressed has done nothing other than create armed peace, brutality, conflicts and terrorism,

Junichiro Koizumi

Adopting a stance that does not fear pain, does not flinch at the barriers of vested interests, and is not shackled by the experience of the past, I want to establish an economic and social system suitable for the 21st century.

Dave Reichert

Emergency management at the Federal level will be greatly enhanced by adopting a bottom-up strategy that helps local governments be more effective.

John Prendergast

Early adopters of digital cameras most often printed at home, if they printed at all - there weren't many options yet available or convenient. Now the infrastructure to get digital prints at retail is in place and consumers are adopting this behavior more quickly, ... As the quality, functionality and ease-of-use of camera phones improve, we see users gravitating to the service, quality and cost-effectiveness of the retail destination.

There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. They're trying to rebuild their lives.