Alignment Quotations

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it's the most ridiculous concept.

Life is a wonderful administration of the heart, the mind and the soul. By listening to your heart and visualizing with your mind, you can come into alignment with your soul.

More important than this temporary alignment is the fact that the indicators are going in the same direction and have been doing so for several months. The Katrina period seems to have been the low point and we interpret the trend as the slow accommodation to the reality of higher oil prices. We also like seeing user expectations in line with vendor revenue forecasts.

Performance and Process Management: Driving Business IT Innovation and Alignment

Now what happens to the market depends on the interest rate structure. Long rates have been better than expected, but I think we can see them rising, moving into alignment with what's going on with the economy and with short-term rates.

I don?t know exactly what the alignment is at this point; I haven?t seen the final line on the map myself.

We're concerned there. We gave up five sacks. Two of them were a little situation where we didn't get the alignment the way we wanted it, so it was our fault. But at the same time, we scrambled out of there to save us a couple, too.

Mistakes, alignment problems, some mental stuff we've got to get done. (Valley's) d-line was just fast, just tough to block.

Luke and I played that way in college, and it worked great for our team. But this team needs a sweeper in the back. The 3-5-2 alignment gives us more depth in the back and more numbers in the midfield.

Many people ask about the number 13, linking it to the eclipse and the alignment of the stars. I think everything is aligning for a very good mission.

Greenspan's remarks appear to be more balanced than in the past. He is moving into closer alignment with what has become accepted practice in most central banking circles. Missing, however, is what a central bank should do in order to avoid the pitfalls of excess dependence on overvalued assets.

I believe that the Galactic alignment stimulates consciousness evolution on this planet, whether or not beings alive during the alignment era are aware of it happening.

Having some kind of political alignment between nations and their oil companies is bringing a distinct competitive advantage. That advantage will not be going to the stateless multinationals.

What you have is an alignment of cases -- of the stars, if you will -- in favor of a dramatic shift in the U.S. Supreme Court that certainly holds great promise for the preservation of life.

I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I didn't know that in so many ways, I was living my life not in alignment with that. And once I learned about those ways I could be loving animals better, I made those changes, which made me happier and had me living a life that had me contributing.

He was successful when we asked him to throw it. Portsmouth played an eight-man front all game and we are able to block it. We connived a lot of looks for them such as putting our fullback in motion, shifting. We did some thing they probably have never seen us do before. It caused them some alignment problems, but that's what we decided we were going to try to do.

Staying on the current alignment would have less impact on surrounding businesses and properties.

It is a tribute to the common sense of balance of the Canadian people that the gravitational alignment of all of these left-leaning forces has not pulled us further into left-field than we already are.

Overall we enable the alignment between business processes, systems, data and infrastructure which in the long term helps ensure a continuous level of security throughout the network.

I thought overall the execution was good on both sides of the football. I was looking for a few things. I was looking for an improvement on penalties over last week, which we did, and better alignment on assignment, which we did. We still need to take care of the ball better, but defensively we created some turnovers, which was plus for them.

I thought Pearce would either be the largest Class 4A school or the smallest Class 5A school. That wouldn't have been good. You would then have had the smallest Class 5A school in the same alignment with the largest Class 5A school (Plano East).

It could just be the alignment of the stars.

The analysis said the bridge needs to be completely replaced. The plan is to build a new bridge to the north, so there is a better (road) alignment when you come out of Red Bank.

We couldn't be more pleased with the outcome of these discussions. We have been able to streamline and solidify our television presence for the long term through this alignment with two very strong network partners and an exclusive cable provider. These agreements will drive enormous value to sponsors. And it's a big win for our fans, because these television partners will provide the continuity and quality of coverage that will bring out the drama of the season-long FedEx Cup competition, while also positioning The Players Championship for maximum impact and fan interest.

We have nothing more to add. As we have said all along, we remain focused on our plan to win, which is delivering solid results by improving our restaurant experience for customers, ensuring alignment with our franchisees and suppliers and adding value to shareholders.

We have nothing more to add. But as we have said all along we remain focused on executing our 'Plan to Win,' which is delivering solid results by improving our restaurant experience for our customers and insuring alignment with our franchisees and suppliers and adding value to shareholders.

We believe there is strong alignment between what the MAP tests cover and what the college-entry exams cover, at least in the areas of communications arts and mathematics. In other words, they both test similar content. If necessary, we could supplement an existing national test to get the coverage we need in some academic areas.

That was my first thought. You also have six teams in this alignment which went at least two rounds deep in the playoffs. I think anyone of seven schools could win the district championship in football. If this is not the strongest alignment in the state, I'd like you to show me which one is.

There are two relationships that are crucial to success. One is the GM-owner, and the other is the GM-manager. If there's not alignment in vision in where you're trying to go between either of those two relationships, then what happens is wasted energy, frankly.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

The convergence of the two economies is as much about the alignment of our two democracies, as about the dollars and cents associated with India as an emerging economic opportunity.

When Jon went down at that particular time, it created a different alignment than we would normally use in that situation.

We don't always select the cheapest alignment because it may be the most environmentally harmful. Cost drives most everything we do.

We would only encourage all sides to really understand the dimensions of this historic opportunity and that it should not be missed -- and that is the alignment of these two democracies because this underpins this relationship and partnership of trust between the two countries.

We wanted to work with Sierra Mist to create something that was relevant to our viewers and people who love comedy. We have two brands that make a lot of sense. It's a perfect alignment of assets that speaks to the TBS viewer.

With this new wave of partner alignment around enterprise services, we expect to bring thousands of enterprise services to life for our mutual customers through community collaboration, ... Customers win when the ecosystem collaborates on a timely delivery of innovative technologies that solve deployment and integration issues. This architectural shift is happening now, and SAP is the only solution provider to bring together an enterprise-scale blueprint with ESA, an enabling platform in SAP NetWeaver, an available repository of more than 500 enterprise services, and now with Enterprise Services Community Process, a foundation of a collaborative process for building enterprise services.

Until market forces, assisted by a vigilant Federal Reserve, affect the necessary alignment of aggregate demand with the growth of potential aggregate supply, the full benefits of innovative productivity acceleration are at risk of being undermined by financial and economic instability,

We bring a unique fusion of medspa and business development expertise to market for our clients, ... In close conjunction with the client, the character, style and ambiance of each medspa are in perfect alignment with the elements of its unique community and target market. Passion for an early success manifests itself in the way we usher the client through the construction phase making sure that the architect, contractor and client work together cohesively.

Were just not at the point where any specific alignment has been chosen. I hope that having this Web site out there will continue to show that and the current status of the project.

Each country has already begun to identify a portfolio of actions to improve their energy security, reduce pollution and cut their greenhouse gases. What we are going to do with the partnership is find some alignment of those strategies so we can expand and promote investment in technologies that will help meet those goals.

Between your tires being low and your alignment being off, you could easily lose 15 percent of your efficiency, just in your tires.

The shift to a shortened description reflects a growing trend toward alignment with consumer expectations and current market conditions. We also believe that growing broadband penetration is forcing users to think and act more quickly, in line with how technology in general is changing.

The stars aren't in alignment for these guys right now. They're really in the wrong place at the wrong time,

This new organizational alignment allows us to further strengthen the services provided to our clients worldwide.

We didn't have the correct defensive alignment for what he (Moore) was coming with. He had a three-forward set and we hadn't seen a three-forward set. My girls weren't real prepared for it and didn't cover it real well.

But their alignment with Port Melbourne broke down, so you've got to look at that and be wary.

They use so many different sets. They present a unique problem. Rockcastle County was not that way. My biggest concern about this game is getting us in the proper defensive alignment because early against Rockcastle, we didn't always get in the right spots.

They run hard to the ball. We change our alignment up a little but you're still not going to win a lot of 1-0 games.

EMA has been the leading source of knowledge within the IT Service Management industry for several years. We both have developed proven educational and consulting products to ensure successful alignment of business practices with IT practices.

This is another significant step in consolidating and strengthening the independent bottling system in the U.S. It will further enhance the strategic alignment between Dr Pepper/Seven Up and its key bottlers,

The NBA was very fortunate to have three stars like that back to back. That wasn't planned, it was an alignment of the planets.

I'm just left in limbo for more than 10 years. It doesn't make any sense to pick alignment and not fund it.

In their defensive alignment their safeties were playing deep and their cornerbacks were near the sideline. We had guys open all night.

In the first half we had a couple of alignment errors. We corrected that, got the right people in and made plays.

In the summertime, we do a lot of video work. With that, I can show them if their head is moving too far or if the ball position or alignment isn't right.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

They've got to create alignment between capacity and sales volume.

The higher out-of-stock position suggests that either Toys 'R' Us is not allocating additional product to its online store, or that sales at both the online and physical stores are significantly higher than plan and Toys 'R' Us does not have available inventory, ... We believe it calls into question one of the key benefits of the Amazon/Toys 'R' Us alliance, and suggests a possible lack of alignment between the partners.

This has been kind of a planetary alignment for cartooning.

This organization is a simple one because the alignment here of all the product groups save one is around markets: around people who write checks, the buyers,

There is no visible break between the putter alignment aid and the ball. It really helps to have the alignment area focus you on a specific point on the back of the ball.

We had the latitude to negotiate any additional right of way if we wanted to change the alignment of road, which we did. That was a new experience, and it worked out pretty well.

Those plays were important. We saw in their alignment that we might catch them by surprise with the pooch kick to open the game.

It's going to be a blessing for me. What I'm finding, because I threw across my body, I never could free up my arm. My pitches have more life to them now than they ever had. And if I do get out of alignment a little bit, I can feel it. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. That's the way I'm looking at it.

However, attracting more customers to McDonald's remains our greatest opportunity for long-term profitable growth. Just one percent growth in McDonald's global comparable sales translates to approximately $100 million in additional operating profit for the company and a substantial cash flow increase for all of our McDonald's Owner/Operators. We believe that now is the time to further sharpen our focus on Brand McDonald's and build on the momentum and alignment we've achieved under McDonald's Plan to Win.

I couldn't find the clock. And my alignment was all wrong.

To live in alignment with your Spirit is to live your truth and build your life upon it.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.