Famous Quotes & Sayings

No longer do companies study consumers' psyches only by asking people what they think about technology and how they use it. Now they conduct observational research, dispatching anthropologists to employ their ethnographic skills by interviewing, watching and videotaping consumers in their natural habitats.

Kate Capshaw

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

John Sculley

I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world.

James F. Amos

The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.

Jane Campion

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Kathleen Hanna

You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

Jane McGonigal

When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online.

Jane Green

My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it.

Ron Wilson

We had a number of chances and he made some great saves in traffic. I think we generated six, seven scoring chances. You can't ask for more than that.

John Gibbons

We had no choice, we had to go to them early. That would have been the perfect night for (Downs). We asked a lot out of our 'pen, but they sucked it up.

When they come in, I grab them and I hug them and I ask them if they are thirsty. The stories are unbelievable.

When they came for her there were no tears. It was a silent adieu. She asked me to look after papa. I am sure she knew she was leaving forever.

Alan Alda

When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.

Gustavo Santaolalla

When they ask if rock en Espanol is going to take over, I just feel that it's a thriving force, and something that's here to stay. I don't know if it's going to take over, but I'm sure it's not going to stop and most likely it's going to keep on growing, because there are more young people who embrace the music and use this music to express what's going on around them.

When they ask for your occupation, I can't imagine there would be a little box to check describing my job.

Charley Pride

When they asked me, I didn't hesitate. I don't get a chance to do many things that aren't so scheduled.

Jodi Rell

When they asked Connecticut, we knew our facts and we had the documentation to back it up and it paid off.

W. S. Gilbert

When the work is done, I go off and I live on my boat for awhile, and I can't think of anything that makes me happier. It all depends on where your values are. Sometimes I ask myself why I do all this work, but once I get out on the water, I know.

When the time is right, we will make a statement, so I ask that you please give the family their space and privacy at this point.

When you replace two African-American men with white men, people are going to ask the question. We understand that. I believe Jamie Pollard has made it clear that certainly race was not a factor in these coaching decisions.

When Zach asked me to play, I didn't know what tournament it was or anything. After we won the first tournament, we got a lot of confidence and believed that we could do it.

When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

When he called, I asked him if he believed it or not. I said he better tell somebody.

When he asked permission to stay, we were just shocked. He spent the summer and then he just stayed. In a lot of ways, I was sad for my sister, but she had her hands full. I'm glad we took him.

When Gretchen took off, the labels started asking Joe 'What else do you have?' ... And he said, 'I have Bobby Pinson - this is the most real thing I have.'

Paul Ryan

When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.

Mark Thomas

When God puts things on your heart, you don't ask questions. You just go to work.

George Bernard Shaw

When George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand a reporter asked him his impression of the place and, after a pause, Shaw is said to have replied: "Altogether too many sheep

When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire, we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff. We will use his many talents on both the basketball and business sides of the team.

Monica Crowley

When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer.

Mollie King

If anyone approaches me and asks if I'm Mollie from The Saturdays, I'm immediately shy and embarrassed.

Nolan Bushnell

A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.