Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hu Jintao

Our goal is to keep the exchange rate basically stable at adaptive and equilibrium levels.

Ed Bronsdon

We made some phone calls and e-mails back and forth. They hooked us up with Jeff Hendricks (an adaptive physical education teacher at Douglas) and we went from there.

Daniel Hall

The plan fails to provide bottom line standards for biological goals, adaptive management, monitoring, and permit duration.

Denis Pombriant

Siebel has provided a consistent vision for the CRM industry for over a decade. With Customer Adaptive Solutions -- and everything they represent -- the company is laying out a new vision for customer facing applications that are more flexible and better able to accommodate customer input. This will enable Siebel users to be more responsive to customers and enable the kind of customer centric processes that drive loyalty and, ultimately, repeat business.

Tim Jackson

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

Meg Whitman

What we have seen is that our army of entrepreneurs, our users, bring to market what consumers want, and they are far more adaptive and prescient that any company can be,

Chris Young

Today, RSA Security is proud to unveil a solution that uniquely addresses the full continuum of financial institutions' authentication needs: the combination of risk-based and one-time password-based authentication -- and a broad range of form factors for two-factor authentication -- are available from a single source rather than via a hodgepodge of partnerships. Moreover, RSA Adaptive Authentication is live and proven today, with its modules already deployed and protecting consumers at many of the world's leading financial institutions.

Robin Marantz Henig

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Osman Rashid

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

Simon Baker

Reed Elsevier is an oil tanker that is surging ahead in the same direction that it has been going in for the past few years. It leaves the share price lacking any great dynamics to trade into.

Karla Lopez

Recently I went to a wellness meeting and was happy to see that our district is way ahead of the game when it comes to having a wellness policy in place. Even so, we have more to do.

Mark Heiderscheid

Really when you look late in games, people are going to be a bit more tired in the back and liable to make more mistakes. We don't want to give up an opportunity where a team can go ahead and knock something forward.

Harry Reid

Reid snapped, answering a reporter's question. The failure to move ahead with the Iraq investigation, he said, is ''a slap in the face to the American people.

Andre Payne

Our point guard Czyz Bennett just took it up on himself and made great decisions. We needed that. As long as we win, somebody's going to lose and we'll get ahead of somebody.

Haruhiko Kuroda

Our regions accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us,

David Peters

Our real goal is to get ahead of the game before the suits are filed. One of the reasons the crisis has occurred is because the business community has its head in the sand.

Maurice Carroll

Our numbers show that Bush is ahead but there is still room for funny things to happen. It's not in the bag, partly because the numbers have been so volatile.

John King

Our offense is probably ahead of our defense, right now. Not having starters back is deceptive, because a lot of them played as backups. A couple of them even got experience in the playoffs.

Jeff Dungan

Paul will provide landscape architecture and we'll do civil architecture. We'll help with layout and all of the things he needs for construction.

John Chambers

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct. Today, the differences have blurred between these customer segments and Cisco is in a unique position to provide the industry's broadest family of products united under a consistent architecture designed to help our customers improve productivity and profitability.

Vint Cerf

Some of us feel NAT boxes are sort of an abomination because they really do mess about with the basic protocol architecture of the Internet.

Thom Mayne

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Sandy Wilson

Our target is to deliver demonstrable evidence to our customer that in-hub electric-drive is mature enough to meet the FRES requirement and that the hybrid power architecture can be successfully integrated with an open standards electronic architecture. Further, this is an excellent opportunity for the customer to evaluate the transformational benefits of a hybrid-electric drive that offers track-like performance at wheeled vehicle costs, which has the capability to quickly balance or shift power to mission systems that may have different requirements based on mission profile. This optimizes performance for fuel efficiency, and removes traditional armored fighting-vehicle drive line constraints, which will significantly reduce the whole-life cost of ownership.

Dennis Mann

Overall, maybe 40 African-Americans become licensed in any given year. The numbers of African-American women (who number 145 nationally) are bound to continue the most dramatic growth because women now represent half of the student body in architecture schools.

George Fraser

Our architecture is set up so that you can stream any media through any transport, from any protocol to any device with full security built in.

Joseph Kosinski

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Jane Harman

It is appropriate to insist on an overall strategy for space architecture and to face tough decisions, ... Boeing management readily admits that mistakes were made on this program. But those mistakes are now corrected and I remain hopeful that a well-managed program will ultimately move forward.

Mike Warren

Recreational sports help to keep our campus fit because they provide ways for students to get out and stay active.

Allyson Wilson

Orientation is very important because students who don't have a lot of experience on campus need the opportunity to come to campus and to learn where things are and the resources that they have on campus and the things we have for them to be involved and become a true part of campus if they are able to do so.

Steve Purchase

People have taken notice of the work we have done on campus to foster a politically engaged population. We want to create an environment of consistency of turnout.

Stan Albrecht

Some have only been on campus a couple of weeks, ... incredible tragedy.

Dennis Healy

Pitching has always been the dominant thing for me, ... The campus is beautiful, the people have been helpful and courteous everybody has been great.

Larry Coker

Players get to come on your campus for what is essentially an unofficial visit. There's no pressure. They get to look around, totally relaxed.

Patricia Brennan

Many (academic staff) are outstanding scholars and teachers. We want to help them have a say in running the campus and help them have reasonable career progression.

Dave Davis

I think the whole campus is mad at me because they think I made Matt get a haircut. But all I did was make a suggestion.

Adam Marcoux

I was watching a movie when I heard a pop in the bathroom. The light fixture was on fire. I called Campus Safety and told them what happened and they said they would be right over.

Hu Jintao

Regardless of person or political party and regardless of what he or it has said or done, we are willing to hold talks on developing cross-Strait relations so long as he or it recognizes the 'One China' principle and the 1992 consensus,

Billy Beane

Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they've had in the minor leagues and discounting their first few months in the majors. Developing young players can be a lot of fun, but you've got to have the discipline to live with their mistakes and understand their trend line isn't always going to go straight up.

Chris Jones

Our (pitching) coordinator always talks about developing a winning attitude.

Dwane Casey

Our trend the whole year has been developing a rhythm in the first quarter. Then once (Kevin Garnett) comes out we kind of get off kilter.

Dan Glickman

Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future,

Jim Greenwood

Malaysia is an important market with a strong interest in developing its biotechnology industry.

Becky Dyer

We now have peer tutors. They're developing relationships with each other.

Pat Riley

I think they have great respect for New Jersey. They are a very effective team right now and they're developing a lot of confidence.

Gerald Galloway

It is an important part of the U.S. economy, and it's even more important in the developing world. You have to be able to provide water for agriculture.

Gregg Laskoski

Refinery levels are not up to where they were before Katrina. We'll probably see prices edge higher in the next few weeks before they start going down.

Brian Brandtner

Our rebounding was a big edge in this game.

Harry Carson

Players don't need rest. If someone is injured and needs time to recuperate, that's one thing. But players need to go out and play. One of the things that can happen if you take a player off the field is that he loses his edge by standing on the sidelines.

David Champion

I think they've lost their competitive edge in terms of reliability. In the past we would put them maybe not quite as good as Toyota and Honda, but pretty close.

David Champion

I think they've lost their competitive edge in terms of reliability.

Jack Bauerle

I think the second day is the most important day of the meet. The edge goes off after the first day and this is where it's at.

Mike Mitchell

It is an edge when you train over the surface and don't have to ship over.

Reggie Watts

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

Lori Daniel

I think it was a relief that we went to the finals last year, didn't win, but did this year. We didn't have the mental edge going into that game (with Salem).

Kenneth Relihan

It is kind of a flexible kind of situation.

Elliot Jacobowitz

I think he thought it was more flexible to take a pad of paper, usually a yellow pad and a pencil and he would make a million scratch outs.

Ben Bernanke

I do not subscribe to any rigid and mechanical rule ... I intend to be flexible and to learn from experience.

Michael Spencer

Because of the unique (layout) of the property we are able to be flexible in multiple party venues.

Kara Bunte

I think the organization has shown great strength . . . but it is challenging. We are being as flexible as we can in terms of providing aid.

Ron James

His system isn't as flexible as I would like it to be. Not that it doesn't work. Certainly, it does work.

John Bolton

We're looking forward to Monday, ... We are prepared to be flexible on format and process.

Tim Vine

So I said to the Gym instructor "Can you teach me to do the splits?" He said "How flexible are you?". I said "I can't make Tuesdays".

Mark Regev

We want to be as flexible as we can on the issue of the crossings.

Joshua Greenbaum

Oracle has tremendous problems being industry expert. SAP has had more success at that end.

Kevin Haggerty

People in the industry feel it's more of a privacy enhancer because it's such a secure way of identification.

Buster Brown

It is a touchy subject. But in any industry there is a surplus of unusable goods. What do you do with them?

J. Horton

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Alan McCoy

I think that's pretty important from a reputable, well-known independent steel industry analyst." ()

Randeep Hooda

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

Larry Ellison

I have been working more, ... That's true, and the reason I'm working more is this is an extraordinary opportunity. My industry and in fact, every industry soon is going through this tectonic change.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Valery Yashin

Our main task is to strengthen our position on the market through investment in the development of new services.

Jeff Cheah

Stabilizing ... that is the key word that investors are reacting to.

Andrew Steer

Our strong view is that private investment will surge in the second half.

Richard Pierce

Our taxes are going up anyway. It's an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

Tom Burns

Our value proposition for advisors is very strong. We learned that it pays to invest in our people.

Allan Katz

Retailers who haven't already invested in a POS system think they are too expensive.

Pat Summitt

I think they understand there is a lot of tradition here, and there's a lot of players that are upset. I've had phone calls. That just speaks volumes to what they've invested in this program. Still, they are like family. When we lose, they lose.

Boris Yeltsin

It is a significant sum for those who invest in Russia.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to linear and smooth.

Tiffany Townsend

PATH line rail schedules have nothing to do with toll-crossing charges.

Ali Moshiri

Our objective is in line with what their objective is.

Jim Darling

Our offensive line wore them down and we just ran over them.

Chan Gailey

Our offensive line is pretty young. We did not feel like it was imperative. We'll make a push for some next year, maybe one or two. I don't feel any pressure right now and I think we'll have to look and see what we have numbers-wise to work with next year.

I. Stone

Our offensive line is not near where we need it to be. Our wide receivers are better than where we've been in the past, though.

Oprah Winfrey

Stanford, Yale and NYU line up to get a seat in her class.

John Swainson

Our results for the quarter were not in line with our expectations.

Martin Brodeur

We'll be able to make a long pass because the red line is out,

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Chris Rock

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

Henk Potts

Standard and Chartered could be vulnerable to a takeover.

Sophie Lowe

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Craig Mathias

If that had not happened, we would probably not have had an 11n standard this year.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Shane Richardson

We'll be making sure it's up to standard ... we'll make sure before we go there.

Michael Harris

When I am hiring, I look at the technical qualifications.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Arash Ferdowsi

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Jim Anderson

There's really not much that's technical to it,

Tony Giarrusso

The scholarships don't necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

Melissa Wilson

It's been a very technical evacuation for the people.

Nick Knight

That may well be a technical thing - it's something I will look at during the winter,

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.