Famous Quotes & Sayings

The trend for reduced unemployment rates is pleasing but as a government, we still have more work to do to with our industrial relation reforms and changes to unfair dismissal laws, which will remove the monkey on the back of small business,

The Treasury tends to follow through with changes in new issuance when it forewarns of possible changes,

The transformative nature of technology is not from increases in efficiency or effectiveness. The transformations are embedded in second-level effects--that is, the unimagined and unintended innovations that give rise to changes in organizations, markets and social interactions.

The time has come for these changes to be put into practice and not only talked about.

The United States does not support Taiwan independence and opposes unilateral changes to the status quo by either Taiwan or Beijing.

I've been very pleased with the YMCA program and the YMCA staff. I'm hoping there will be some discussions with parents about this, if changes are made.

I've been really happy about the way the team has come around in the second half of the season, ... And I think I'm a part of that. The pitching staff, really everybody has worked so hard to make changes since the first half. We're going to finish the season close to .500 and that was the goal. Finish .500 and finish positive.

We do not support Taiwan independence, and we oppose unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.

We learned a lot at the Pac-10 tournament. If we implement the changes we introduced at practice this week, particularly on defense, we should be in pretty good shape.

Carl Edwards

We learned a lot about how the track changes today, and some other things that should help us tomorrow. I just know, after winning today, I'm going to sleep well tonight.

Byron Dorgan

We're trying to get through all of this, to understand it, ... Northwest has been a good carrier for North Dakota for many decades, but they are dominant in our state, and so changes they make can have a profound impact on North Dakota and its economy.

Alex Berenson

Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

There are short-term questions to be sure -- the impact of changes in residential housing markets and the prospects for inflation are two -- but, overall, the economy in 2006 seems likely to be very well-behaved.

Douglas Coupland

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

We understand that, on a daily basis, we must train ourselves. This industry changes every day and if you stop and smell the roses, somebody's going to pass you by. Every day is a learning process because our customers are counting on us to keep up ....

Sam Adams

We busted. We all know there's going to be changes ... lots of changes.

Brian Sabean

We obviously have to make some significant changes to improve our lot,

While other people were off eating turkey I was hitting the slopes and improving my skiing. I made some major changes that have showed up right away.

With a little more execution, it changes the complexion of our zone. The one thing we couldn't give up was penetration to the baseline. They got too many looks to close to the basket.

Sheri Fink

It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.

We are working on a proposal how we can lift the cap. We will have future changes and the door will be open much wider.

We concluded there must be significant changes in the composition of the management team at this time.

We concluded that it didn't make a whole lot of sense to make changes without the new coach being involved.

Sam Mendes

We did ask, ... And luckily, instead of saying, 'Well, maybe, if you make a few adjustments,' there was some intelligent person at the Pentagon who flat-out said, 'No way.' Which is what you want, because there are lots of stories about them saying yes, then at the last minute wanting changes and, before you know it, everything's compromised.

We will do it on a rolling basis, as countries make changes in law and regulation necessary to meet the CAFTA commitments.

We will continue to evaluate the current program before deciding whether or not any changes are required.

We would like to have it open no later than 2008. We will not make any changes until the new facility opens.

There have been some changes but mainly regarding the outside and aesthetics of the aquatic centre, but this would in no way reduce its technical value.

The reason why I didn't think there'd be many changes is you have a sitting Secretary of Defense in charge of it. It's more of a validation of what they've done to-date.

There has been turnover of more than a third of the companies in the past few years. I don't think there is any pressing need to make more changes right now.

Stephen Foster

There has been a shift in math instruction away from an emphasis on computation and drill, and more of an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking, ... The changes to our math curriculum forces students to do more analysis.

We are not seeing anything fundamentally that's slowing the market down. We just think ... with the normal seasonality changes and the size of our company, this is a good forecast for the market.

Jack Straw

We made it clear there will have to be significant changes in levels of overall spending of the EU and in the structure of funding compared to what was on the table in June if there is going to be a deal in December.