Generation Quotations | Page 3

I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

My advice to the younger generation is not to lose focus on what is right and what is wrong! Try to be a good person and a good neighbor.

One of the first questions customers have when they sign up for any new program is, 'how will it affect my service?' The answer is simple -- nothing changes except the generation sources. Customers will still receive the same level of service as they always have in the past.

Polling tells us that this generation is very interested in doing public service, but they're more likely to look to the non-profit sector to scratch that itch.

one of the most important American playwrights ever. I think his work is going to speak to generation after generation of theatergoers.

On most of our campuses this is a very scary moment. For us as a group, it's a time at which the answers are uncertain, but no generation will have the opportunity we have to put our mark on the look of education in the future.

On the face of it, the numbers were pretty good but there are some question marks about the quality and sustainability of earnings given that most of the upside seems to have come from the Power Generation side,

On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is as modern today as it was four decades ago.

NBC Universal is pleased to sponsor this event. We believe it's important to support non-traditional forums like the New York Television Festival in their efforts to cultivate the next generation of innovative storytellers.

I would assume that, at some point in the future, Paramount Pictures would consider doing a Next generation movie.

I was raised to ignore it. It was something my mother's generation saw as an embarrassment. It was corny and archaic and not pushed as something an up-and-coming musician wanted to learn. My mother wanted me to write Broadway shows.

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

If we get an early jump on storage before the hurricane fears kick in and before injections begin competing with generation demand (for air conditioning), we should see more downward pressure on prices.

If we don't hold kids, the sport's going to be in trouble -- we've heard that consistently in every sport. The kind of stuff we do is critical to try and make sure the next generation of fans doesn't go off entirely to snowboarding and stuff like that.

If we don't, I fear very much that for the first time in the modern history of our country the next generation will have a lower standard of living than their parents, and that would be a real tragedy.

I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and career are two different things. Career is inside my life. I'm also a photographer, a pianist, and lots of different things, so my life consists of so many different elements that there are moments when I have to step away and be me.

Nintendo has long been a trailblazer, and this controller design reinforces that reputation, ... We enthusiastically support Nintendo's next console because we believe their approach of continual innovation is very much in line with our own strategy of creating unique and innovative games for the next generation of hardware.

Next year will be even lower. I think the figures are in free fall. We are losing a generation of linguists.

Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.

OEM revenue was light as demand for business PCs remained slow in the quarter, and we remain guarded about near-term growth. However, PC demand appeared to pick up late in the quarter, and with the launch of Windows 2000, we are excited about the opportunity to help customers migrate to this new generation of platform products.

No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.

One thing we are concerned about is what the audience of the future is going to look like. We've got to capture a new generation to support the S.C. Philharmonic.

No new power plant will be allowed to consume natural gas for electricity generation from the year 2012.

One forgets that before August, there was a very limited literature for black actors. August created a generation of actors, a huge number of very talented people who have their careers because of the depth and complexity they could find in the roles he wrote. And the work is so undeniably powerful that it crosses all kinds of lines.

One lesson I've learned (in this production) is that the real gospel message of the cross, the blood and the resurrection is as powerful as it ever was, but the way it is presented from one generation to the next is vitally different. This being a sight and sound generation, we have to go more toward the dramatic and tech approach to get their interest.

One of our key items of strategic focus is developing the next generation of leaders in the firm and the community.

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

Mortgage brokers have been burned by lead generation companies that don't live up to their promises regarding the quality of leads delivered. Our goal in creating the Quality Assurance Program is to meet broker demand for valid names and numbers from people who have truly expressed interest in a loan product.

My daughter watches the news, ... I think kids today are pretty well-informed about what's going on in the world. Hopefully, they'll be a generation that's going to be more understanding, open and willing to cooperate to solve the problems we have.

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

No other generation in history has ever had to plan for this long a retirement. Up to 30 years of income is what they're going to need to create from their savings.

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Now the effort is shifting to deliver a new generation of security products.

Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

Richard Pryor was the Rosa Parks of comedy. He took risks and chances that made it possible for a whole generation of comics to exist. No one ever rocked the mike like Richard Pryor.

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

My generation is so used to having our public spaces look like the Starbucks, with the beautiful lighting and the little bit of Nina Simone and my coffee that's blended a certain way from Costa Rica.

My Generation is, without doubt, and all-time classic... I can't think of a better iconic anthem for HMV's new download service as it reaches out to existing fans and a new generation of music buyers alike.

My generation was bold enough to question many things and to seek spirituality over religion. We haven't succeeded in overthrowing the old order yet, and maybe there are some meanings to be found in my story about coming of age spiritually in the latter half of the twentieth century.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

My generation was taught to go to school, get an education, get a job and live happily ever after. Do you see the problem?

I have great confidence in Joe Brandon's leadership abilities, reinsurance expertise, and financial skills, and look forward to working closely with him and General Re's next generation of leaders.

I go to the ballgames and I'm talking to the fans, and not the players. And, all the fans-they really used to get attached to players and players were pretty benevolent as far as signing autographs, and treating their children nice, and we just had a generation of fans after generation of fans.

If these designated groups build their next generation of healthcare and education standards on web services, electronic forms, and open document standards, and they do so within rules of maintaining compatibility and interoperability, then IBM will not assert any of our patents on implementers of these new healthcare and education standards.

If we don't act now to get the next generation of Vermonters to go to school here and to work here and to help us grow our economy, by the year 2030 every single dollar generated by tax revenue will go to fund kindergarten through 12th-grade education and essential human services. That means there would be no money left for anything else.

If we renew American civilization, if we restore faith, if we defeat the drug culture, if we reestablish incentives, if we decentralize so local volunteers and local leaders create local solutions, if we replace ignorance with knowledge so that every citizen is able to pursue happiness, I think we could in a generation give our grandchildren the kind of America which would let them lead the entire human race,

Let a new earth rise. Let another/ world be born. Let a bloody/ peace be written in the sky./ Let a second generation full of / courage issue forth; let a / people loving freedom come/ to growth.

Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.

We're confident about the longer-term prospects for the fund. Although it may not keep up with its more aggressive peers in a tech rally, we think its attention to long-term cash flow generation can help it in a slower-growth environment, when an earnings miss can send a richly priced stock reeling.

We're going all out to celebrate Aspen's Winter Olympic history and support Aspen's next generation of Olympians.

Low interest in this service among the grey-power generation and the baby boomers stems from multiple reasons, including the fact that the service is a novelty to many senior citizens, who are typically slow to adopt new technologies in the first place. The seemingly complex applications inhibit adoption.

Modern-day access has completely changed how we talk about and think about the frontier of the cosmos. This is a modern-day incarnation of what used to be a team of artists who would sit there with a canvas and sort of paint up something that was described to them, to be photographed and put in the sky. This is a new generation of the representation of the frontier of science.

Since it is hard to wholly change the skills of adult skaters, we should train the youth from the very beginning to learn the techniques from the South Koreans. If everything goes well, the next generation of skaters may have more chance to catch up with the world.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

Medtronic I think is a great way to play sort of everyone getting older, as they say, the aging baby boom. They have a new product out that was approved last winter. It does two different things. An implantable device, and I'm not sure I'd explain it all well enough, but it's the next generation from the old pacemakers. And they have just over the past week implanted that for the first time in a patient and that's a whole great new product cycle about to start.

Mobile gaming is the next step of gambling technology because it allows the patron to gamble when he or she wants in the appropriate areas of the casino. There is an entire generation that has grown up with mobile devices. People like to do what they want on their own terms. That's what mobile gaming allows.

May there be a generation of children, On the children of your children.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

Moving from the theological to the practical implications of Sony's snafu, the company couldn't have picked a worse time to offend its customers. Sony has already conceded a six-month head start to competitor Microsoft in the upcoming market-share battle for the next generation of game consoles. Microsoft's Xbox 360 is expected to debut this fall; Sony's PlayStation 3 will not arrive until the spring of 2006.

She is a very serious, down-to-earth, no-nonsense artist. She has always talked about intimacy and quietness in her work, and yet she is also the only artist of her generation who has tackled these huge public projects. That is a very rare balance.

She just embodied the generation of civic duty. Her zeal and passion never stopped. This isn't like a phase she grew out of.

Shortage of electricity is still a major inconvenience. Electricity is an essential ingredient of economic development. We need to ensure that electricity generation grows rapidly and that power shortages are eliminated.

Silicon Valley is a hotbed of innovation in wireless technologies. Establishing a ubiquitous network will enable the deployment of a new generation of broadband services for our entire community, including small businesses, schools, non-profits, and all the citizens of our region.

Shifting to private investment wouldn't be easy. A whole generation would have to pay twice -- saving for themselves while paying benefits to those retired under the old system.

should be a wake-up call to us all that more generation and more transmission are badly needed and this reform will help achieve those goals.

SEQuester(tm), the patented star product in this new generation of super filters, is intended for the genomics market of automated DNA sequencing laboratories. The product offers sizeable labor savings in the processing of DNA samples and fully enables robotic sequencers. We have discussed tentative agreements for brand alliances and manufacturing through well known distribution channels in the DNA products industry, an overall market worth an estimated U.S. $4 billion.

Setting realistic goals and having a well-thought-out plan is important. Generic competition in any given market is inevitable. Start your next- generation drug development early -- just after product launch -- and be ready to show patients that the benefits gained from the scientific advances of a next-generation drug outweigh the savings that come from switching to generics.

Several next-generation systems are still in development. Would it really make sense to buy more current generation platforms?

So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

Harnessing mobile media technology will be the automotive industry's most important marketing challenge -- and opportunity -- in the next decade. Generation Y is tuning out traditional advertising, and watching what they want, when they want. Creating breakthrough content and developing relationships with customers through emerging media technologies will separate the winners from the losers in the next five years.

Handset Gateways enable businesses of all sizes to migrate quickly to IP telephony and benefit from next generation feature functionality without buying or installing expensive new phones or performing costly LAN infrastructure upgrades.

He is tremendous with these young people. He gets great participation. He really has the kids' respect. From a yacht club standpoint, we like to support things that are boat-related to encourage the next generation of boaters.

This was our best year ever for the generation of net income.

I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.

Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

I am uncomfortable with putting so much debt onto the shoulders of our younger generations. The current generation is paying for those who are retired.

I can think of nothing more appropriate for this occasion than to welcome and honor Senator Harkin for his vision and compassion in championing passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act 16 years ago. An entire generation of empowered citizens is deeply indebted to him.

From the very beginning, the West has been against scientific progress and economic growth in our country. They do not want to see our young generation gain access to nuclear fuel technology.

Gillette fell short of earnings ... Wall Street's still down on the company but this year a lot of smart money investors are snapping up the shares because they see the trend in the technical generation of the stock. One analyst I called, Kevin Lane, says that the stock will hit $54 in six-to-nine months, ... So it's a very good play on an old name that's a fallen angel.

Given its strong exposure to next generation products and continued cost reductions, margins should also start to show upside.

From one generation to the next, every young Marine learns the history of the Corps and takes it to heart. It's pounded into you in boot camp, right along with all the tools you need to be a Marine.

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.

I got a sense that it's the kind of music that transcends the generation that was initially exposed to it,

Giving e-speak away attracts attention to Hewlett Packard, ... People see us as a thought leader in this generation of the Internet.

For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, much more natural.

I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.

I don't think our constituents think it's real. As with so many things, it seems to be so blown out of proportion. And, frankly, this generation has not witnessed anything like this. But I did take some notes during this meeting, and we are going to prepare.

I don't think we understood that last year, but this year we've gotten better at understanding that we need to pull the next generation along. Next year, they're not going to have any seniors. They have to be ready to do the same things we're doing. Then they'll understand why we're always on them. When it's their turn, they'll be ready.

If being intelligent, brilliant, a superb lawyer, the greatest legal mind of your generation and well qualified is not enough, what is?

Caterpillar, the industry's first provider of factory-integrated machine control solutions, continues to be the forerunner in providing innovative machinery and hardware to meet our customers' needs. This second generation of machine control and guidance technology products continues to build on that world-class reputation.

But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? / Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: / And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.