Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Snyder

I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

The product that we had and the product that we're going to have even better can perform much more successfully when we have the dollars to tell the story. Otherwise, we're at a competitive disadvantage. I think it's really important that there is enough resources to let people know what we have. Then we can compete with a lot of major destinations throughout the country.

Tim Tebow

You just go out and compete and try to earn whatever you can. I'm looking to get better every single day I set foot on this field.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the competent

Eddie Money

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

Takeru Kobayashi

I just want to compete and do what I love.

Michelle Kwan

Should those USFS representatives, after observing my short and long programs on January 27th or 28th, determine, in their sole discretion, that my programs do not contain the technical elements necessary for an Olympic level performance, or that my prior injury will prevent me from being physically ready to compete at the highest level at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games on February 21, 2006, I will withdraw from the team.

She has now determined (Kirk) is competent to stand trial. That is not an issue,

Shane failed to fulfill the prescribed rehabilitation program outlined by NASCAR. As a result, Shane has forfeited his opportunity to compete in any NASCAR-sanctioned events.

Evan Lysacek

Since last year, I've made so many improvements already that hopefully I can go out and compete with these guys and be that much better.

Since he has no prior record and obviously this was the result of some form of Alzheimer's, I would hope he would be placed on probation in the event he's found competent to stand trial. I would be very surprised if he were sent to prison. It's a sort of freak occurrence that someone this old gets involved in something like this. He's the oldest person I've ever had to represent.

E. B. White

She is a warm and considerate woman. We knew she would nurture our children. I'm unable to understand why a competent teacher was removed at this critical time.

She just needs to tune some of these skills. Honestly, she can compete in just about anything.

Cass Sunstein

She is unquestionably an intelligent person and a competent lawyer. But she's had very little experience in constitutional law.

She made it to the top, also because there was a vacuum of power and she was her party's only hope. But she is nevertheless highly competent and fit for the office.

Most of the teams here are state-level teams that we can compete against. Right now, it's just a matter of more time on the courts.

Minnesota is always a quality club. They have very good pitching and are solid defensively. They are similar to us, but they do have a little more experience than us. Yet, I expect us to be able to compete very well with them.

We have heard stories where salespeople from Dell have said, 'We can't compete (on) selling servers; the customer wants AMD'.

We're looking to create a product to compete with Yahoo Games, MSN Games, and make a destination for Web-based applications.

We really have to focus on defense and our intensity. Just working hard and having fun, because it's something that we really haven't been doing lately and we are really going to focus on these two games to really try and compete for 40 minutes of a game and not just be a first-half team.

Rick Adelman

We're a different team than we were before. There's no reason we can't go out and compete in this series.

We're about getting all the people who want to compete with Samsung to be able to build devices. So we're kind of down at the guts level saying, 'Hey, we can give you the hardware, the sensor platform, the software you need to go build your own one.'

The expectations here are high. That's the level we compete at. There's always pressure to win at Michigan. We go into every season thinking that we're going to win the national championship. Why would we shoot for anything less?

The reality is this is the first meet we're really prepared for. We're really ready to see where we're at and make big progress. Whenever you compete in an environment where you've been before, it makes it easier. It's a great track and a good facility, and one of the most competitive meets in the country.

We use this technique more than some others we compete with and frankly, we think we use it to our competitive advantage, ... The fact that we are the only ones doing buyouts in Northern California, well frankly, we like that.

We need to make that defensive secondary better, we need to find some linebackers, and we need to compete and make those defensive linemen tougher.

When Wal-Mart enters a market, we compete with some businesses, which can result in job losses.

Last year, we started seven freshmen, and this year we will probably only start two. That makes it a lot easier for us to compete because we will have maturity and experience.

Many of the people that I counsel sleep through breakfast, spend lunch money on junk -- or eat nothing. And then they try to compete and they are running on empty.

Brian Fitzgerald

So I object because of the fact that I?m not going to be able to compete on a fair basis.

She's the net result of what people were thinking about when Title IX started, giving women the opportunity to compete equally.

Robbie Lawler

The past is the past. I'm just here looking to compete and no matter who it's against, I go in to fight hard and do what I have to do.

William Graham Sumner

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men.