Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is so similar to Microsoft Office that the learning curve (for the librarians) was short. If they can use Microsoft Office, they can use OpenOffice.

It's a real hazard, because it curves a lot and because of the speed it makes it a real big hazard because they slide and fish-tail and everything.

It's a learning curve for the field staff and the PGA Tour, too. We were surprised at the difficulty of some of the pin placements during the week for the pro-am competition, and I think the tour staff knows to re-think that.

It's a learning curve for all these young men. One has to hope that they learn quickly.

It's a learning curve and a process that we're in right now. It probably doesn't sound right being in the seventh year, honestly.

It's a learning curve and an experience for us. I don't want to use the excuse of use, but there is a factor there. Six of them have never been here before.

Greg Chappell

It will be a learning curve for him. I know the first few games are very important,

It makes a lot of sense when you look at the depreciation curve on a typical new car. Most of the depreciation takes place in the first two years, so someone else takes the hit,

It's going to be a quick learning curve getting to know all the guys,

Tim O'Brien

We want to give customers an inside view of our implementation so they could have a framework so they could go and do the same thing. If we can shorten the learning curve for our customers and for internal developers, that's success.

As a forecasting rule of thumb, the yield curve has been pretty good but it may not be a good rule of thumb today.

Bill Gross

At some point down the road, in a dynamic economy such as the U.S., we should be returning to a more normal shape. That means ultimately short rates and the front end of the curve will trade at lower yields than long rates.

A win is a win. We'll take it. But we're not going to take it without learning anything from it. The learning curve has to got to be there.

And then my Suzuki's engine is definitely stronger, more horsepower, there's a different power curve and I am happier with it.

A curve inversion will last until the Fed stops tightening. As long is the Fed keeps tightening and inflation remains benign, the curve should be inverted.

A lot of curve flattening trades had to be reversed.

There is this simplistic notion around that because the yield curve is inverted, therefore, economic growth is going to slow down, but ... no consideration is given as to why the economy would slow down.

We're trying to sell him. He's got to make up his mind if he wants to pursue this, and I hope he does because I think with his size and hand-eye coordination he could help. The learning curve will be fast, but I think he can pick it up pretty fast.

Jeff Lewis

We're trying to look around the curve and plan for the future, and I think that's the responsible thing to do. It's prudent to make sure you have a base-load supply of energy that provides 20 percent of the energy that we use.

Bob Melvin

(Dustin) threw reasonably well, but his curve wasn't as good as it could be at times.

Fed tightening is being transmitted throughout the yield curve to other rates, so we're really just starting to see the result of a year and a half of Fed tightening.

Ferry looked like a different team tonight. Tonight they were able to hit the curve and the seemed focused and ready to play. They played well and deserved to win the way they did.

William Stafford

At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if something might happen.

William Stafford

At noon in the desert a panting lizard waited for history, its elbows tense, watching the curve of a particular road as if something might happen.

The shorter end of the U.S. yield curve is holding a fairly nice firm tone.

William Collins

The sunlight flashes off your windshield,and when I look up into the small, posted mirror,I watch you diminish--my echo, my twin--and vanish around a curve in this whipof a road we can't help traveling together.

William Collins

The sunlight flashes off your windshield, and when I look up into the small, posted mirror, I watch you diminish--my echo, my twin-- and vanish around a curve in this whip of a road we can't help traveling together.

Charles Bronson

Sometimes Mother Nature decides to throw a curve ball,

Ben Bernanke

There's no magical relationship between inverted yield curves and recession. There's a debate why long-term rates are so low. It's partly a low term premium and a lot of saving looking for a relatively limited number of investments.

To the extent that a Phillips curve exists, it's a moveable feast.

What the curve is telling us is that a March increase is a foregone conclusion.

There was a huge learning curve there. He still performed very well and was a huge factor for us.

Ian Bremmer

The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.