Famous Quotes & Sayings

In general, they are lucky to get any of their recommendations adopted. A lot of commissions have filed reports, and no one pays attention. By the time they have done their work, attention has moved onto something else - which is, of course, the reason why presidents create commissions.

In competitive industries, patents become more valuable. People should pay more attention to patent issues because they can make or break a company.

Carl Lewis

In light of the substantial attention given this case by the Supreme Court, I believe my continued participation would create a distraction of no benefit to the parents or the best interest of the child,

In all of these things, it says, there's something missing about this guy. He's not paying attention and we've got him running the country and we've got him commanding American troops in a variety of countries. That's scary, isn't it?

Justin Dentmon

There was no acting, but I just like to yell to get the referee's attention so they don't miss the call. That's what I did.

There will be a little bit extra administrative oversight. Currently, the program administrator also oversees two other school systems. We thought we might get better attention to our needs (with the parks program).

There is one service men provide to women everywhere, regardless of race or culture, and that is courting. 3 billion men on earth, all willing to provide this service at anytime, in any place. By the way, men go about their daily business for one purpose... to get the attention of women. Like the guy coming out of his space-ship, he's been in orbit for 3 weeks; first woman he sees he'll be like, 'So, did you see me up there?'

There is obviously a lot of concern about the state of the housing market right now. One thing that caught a lot of people's attention was this nine-year high in unsold homes.

The report shows that the rules themselves are not strong enough. Many countries are not paying attention to them.

There needs to be some form of public attention that deals with some kind of intervention.

There needs to be as much attention given to African-American children as there is to English language learners. And not at the expense of English language learners.

There's a lot more attention being given to board leadership than there was a couple of years ago. We've seen with the corporate scandals and crisis in investor confidence an increased attention to the monitoring function of the board.

Jay Cutler

There's a little attention and stress, but we're here to do our testing, and we've just got to go out and do it. I'm just thankful to be here right now.

Bob Lilly

There's a half-inch metal plate behind that pad, and he hit that pad with his middle knuckle and broke a bone in his hand. He hit it again, and blood started squirting out. Boy, I can tell you he had our attention from then on.

Luc Robitaille

This is the time of year when you have to pay attention to details as a team, and right now we're not doing the little things right. Every team is going to play us hard, and every team knows we work hard. But it's mental mistakes that's costing us games right now.

This marks an important point in which, for the first time, we got the attention of the oil companies and persuaded them to do something.

this is the right time for me to turn my attention to new and different pursuits.

It's very hard to focus on both. Probably, you're paying more attention to your work than your eating.

Eric Clapton

It's very hard, so I try and make it as engaging as it can be. But you have to face the fact that, no matter how good it is, you can only hold their attention for a little while.

It's very indicative of the way the North operates in terms of increasing the tension and trying to get more attention from the United States.

Its time for Gov. Perry to step up and pay attention to the educators and parents of Texas, who have called for property tax relief coupled with increased funding for school improvements.

I try to bring to the attention of this community and our black youth that there are black cowboys and we ride second to none.

Right now they're the team to beat. We're picked first in the conference and the rankings are just a big bulls-eye. It gets everybody's attention and helps motivate the teams we're playing. We've got to show up too.

Right now, the players understand that we have to defend and rebound to stay in the game. It's not like we have to go through a major overhaul. We just have to pay a little more attention to detail and take pride in hitting the boards.

Geoff Mulgan

Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.

Jim Jordan

Presidential campaigns have an awful lot to do with a sense of authenticity, and Romney's image seems to be, 'Pay no attention to anything I've previously said in my political life. I was only lying and pandering then.'

(Sarah) just being out there on the field and taking attention away from everyone else opens things up.

Say what you will about small town schools, ... but they give more individual attention and have smaller class size.

Publicity doesn't have to be perfect all the time. It draws attention to the sport the good, the bad and the ugly. A prime example is Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. There was nothing beautiful about that. But the attention on figure skating, there'll never be attention like it again.

PURE FORMALISM as such, without attention to referential social axioms, is powerless to capture the relevance of many discourse grammatical functions.

Real estate financing is making up a bigger and bigger share of the country's financial sector . The health of real estate financing is of critical importance to the health of the financial sector. We must pay close attention to developments in both the real estate industry and home financing sectors.

Clearly the economy is not helping. Consumers are relatively strapped, and they're focusing more of their time and attention on the big discount days, like black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) and today.

Clearly we will pay close attention to this matter.