Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

with an open mind. They won't be based on my personal views.

While financial markets are focused on all the gloom ... they risk missing the incipient turnaround in corporate profits. Based on the latest GDP figures, corporate earnings probably bottomed in the third quarter. Firms are making the necessary adjustments to restore profitability by reining in their costs, especially labor compensation.

Stephen Jay Gould

I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. [...] I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.

Derek Jeter

There are probably a lot of owners who aren't thrilled about it. This is something we feel is a good thing. The players association and Major League Baseball are getting together on it so we're excited about it.

The quick scores were plays that were based on the coverage. We take what we're given.

Chip Conley

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.

Benjamin Tucker

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

Ben Horowitz

John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.

Barbara Park

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

Bill Lee

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

Barry Bonds

I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.

Danny Meyer

At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.

Joseph Pulitzer

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

Burning Spear

As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.

Ray Bradbury

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

Anthony Carmona

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

We have signed a contract based on a European price formula, which allows us to begin selling gas at a price of $230 for 1,000 cubic meters starting from January 1.

We have seen spikes in giving based off of those things (television telethons for Katrina families).

Morgan Ensberg

This seriously is one of the loosest teams in the history of baseball. It has to do with the character of the squad and starting 15-30. When you start off in the loser echelons of baseball, you learn how to come together quickly.

This will have the tendency to authorize police to make decisions based on ethnicity.

This was a great high school baseball game. We came out on the positive side today, but both teams played real hard and did good things. It was just an exciting high school baseball game.

The past couple of days have been based on one entity's view of what January's weather will look like and that hasn't been enough to establish a price trend.

The partnership between IBM and Novell is focused on delivering Linux solutions to the market that enable customers to meet their requirements for IT and network infrastructure workloads. We support IBM's initiatives to enable more IT professionals to evaluate and deploy DB2 Express and look forward to working together to bring to market compelling solutions based on DB2 Express-C and Linux.

There are headaches, ... But the hardest part is the emotional pressure - the thoughts of not growing old with my wife or watching my sons' baseball games.

There are growth issues the Board of Supervisors needs to deal with. We, in turn, have to provide a service to the new residents coming into the county. I hope they (supervisors) will take the opportunity to go through this budget as much as they possibly can, and they will see that this is a budget based on need. This is not a wish list.

Jose Aznar

This relationship is based on a firm belief in shared values and in principles that we defend and that we proclaim and that we assume.

Junior Seau

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.

To capture this opportunity, we need breakthrough partnerships and synergy based on mutual trust and understanding.