Openings Quotations

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I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

Murakami's characters sense the potential liquification and destruction of everything. The aftershocks are psychological, and can be seen in characters who are some distance from the epicenter of the chaos in both time and space. The rifts, the fissures -- and those words are repeated often in the text -- are inside them now: there are separations and openings in their hearts, wounds and cracks in their psyches.

Some age groups are filled but there are still openings in all four sessions.

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.

Now that we've got an idea about what teaching openings we have, that's one of the nice things when your school district is growing. You have the opportunity to bring teachers in, because there's a demand there. Obviously we want a quality teacher and a quality coach.

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Kevin is a great guy to play with and he really found all the openings in the defense and he got the rest of the team the ball.

Ideally, you want these openings to be grown up some, to provide protection cover.

We may have just retired (13) people or created (13) new job openings in Missouri.

He was afraid of losing. I told him, 'Go back there.' This was three years before he ran. He said, 'But there is nothing open.' But I told him there are always openings that come up.

He gets the ball in his hands, and he hits the openings and makes big plays.

We talked a little bit (yesterday) and we'll talk some more. With the 13th game rule (for UH and 12 for everybody else) that went into place (for 2006 and beyond), we'll both have some openings to talk about.

Joel Silver continues to deliver number one openings for Warner Bros.. This the eighth number one opening for Joel out of his last 10 pictures for the studio. With 'Matrix Reloaded' (May 15) and 'Matrix Revolutions'(Nov. 7) both going this year, he'll definitely extend that impressive record.

Last year during the hurricanes, we would go over and help out as much as we could. I really enjoyed the work and so when the openings came up, I applied and got one of the spots.

Openings are about getting reacquainted. We're all glad to be back, playing music with each other again. The audience will be in a festive mood Wednesday.

Most of the Q1 openings were earlier than planned and have been performing better than anticipated in the short time they have been opened.

Our grand openings are stacked all day long with cars. It definitely creates a big buzz.

It feels good to be able to contribute on a senior-dominated team. I just got some openings and made some shots.

Just like the four main directions (North, South, East and West) the body also possess four openings or doors- the East door is Mouth, the West door is Rectum, the North door is Head while the South door is Private part.

Weaker openings are expected across Europe this morning, Friday's sell-off in the U.S. happened in earnest towards the end of their trading day which to an extent protected the European cash markets (as they had already closed). Their negative reaction is anticipated this morning.

We didn't shoot it well and we did a poor job of going to the boards. We had a lot of openings (to get the ball inside), but the guys on the perimeter just didn't see them.

Most of the people who attend these openings are artists, musicians and students; now they can come see a show and actually afford to take some of the pieces home with them.

We are obviously disappointed in the drop, but we're proud of the film and, hopefully, it fares better overseas where the openings have been strong.

We don't celebrate our grand openings with a ribbon cutting. We have a board that is decorated and signed by all of our employees and then we cut it with a golden saw.

We have a lot of openings for people...not just engineers, but people that can help us build research spaceships and production spaceships.

We adjusted well. I think we just saw openings and ran with it. ... You've got to give them a lot of credit too. They're a really good team.

There are not tremendous amounts of openings but more than in recent months.

We're trying to provide everyone an opportunity to stay and preserve their retirement options and benefits. It's complicated. Every day the number of openings keeps changing because of retirement.

We only have 16 vacancies left to fill, and we got the approval to post six openings next week. In direct care, the numbers are really coming up. ... I know that's got to help.

We will fully deliver the amount of gas intended for Europe to the openings of Ukraine's gas pipeline system, and from that moment on responsibility will lie with Ukraine. If they make good on their threat to take unsanctioned gas, they will bear full responsibility for that.

With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.

When we got our students back, the population of New Orleans increased by 10 to 20 percent. A lot of businesses pegged their openings to the return of our students. We expect the students to be a big part of rebuilding.

We're not announcing it, because we don't know who it is going to be. Bobby has done this many times in the past when we've had openings at various positions. We'll let them compete for it, and whoever impresses the most will get the opportunity to be our closer.

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

And the water will fall from each opening down from about this level. The openings are 200-feet square. We have 1,600 feet of waterfall. It will be the largest fountain in the world.

Early in the year she had a hard time knowing when to shoot and when to kick it out. As practice has gone on, I think she's realizing what she needs to do and where to see the openings when it's her shot. I have trust in her, but it's gotten a lot more since the beginning of the season. So I guess it's true that's she's building it up. It's not a conscious thing I think about, but I definitely feel I trust her more than the beginning of the season.

I understand my name is being mentioned in connection with job openings in the National Football League, but I want to re-iterate my commitment to the University of Louisville, our players and all of our Cardinal fans. The University of Louisville has been great for me, and family and I'm committed to fulfilling our goal of taking the program to the next level.

We're thrilled to have Mr. Sheppard help us celebrate these new openings as someone who is a beloved example to New Yorkers of dedication and longevity. Bank of America has a strong, long-term commitment to New York City. These new banking centers underscore our plan to become an even bigger part of the New York community in the years ahead.

The season isn't going to start for quite a while. There's a lot of teams with openings right now. There's a lot of talk right now. There's a lot more teams talking this time of year than usual.

There is some openings on it. We know some product has come out but not the extent that poses a great environmental threat at this point in time.

The opinion also on Wall Street is that more rate hikes are likely to follow this. And if that occurs, there's still uncertainty in the overall market and consequently it will be tough to get a big rally off the low, ... The market has certainly become tired. The psychology is that of a bear market. We get strong openings only to close either at the low of the day or near the low of the day. Witness what we saw on Friday. So on balance, yes, that psychology has changed.

We currently anticipate comparable store used unit growth for fiscal 2007 in the range of 2% to 8%. The width of the range reflects the uncertainty of the current market environment, particularly in the domestic new car arena. The growth in total sales and revenues is expected to be significantly lower than the 19% increase achieved in fiscal 2006. This decrease reflects the difference in store opening patterns. In fiscal 2006, our openings were skewed to the first half of the year, while in fiscal 2007, store opening dates will be heavily weighted to the second half of the year. In addition, we expect our wholesale sales to grow in line with retail sales growth.

I wanted our guys to run what we call a rover and our sets and try to create an illusion in a zone that there are openings and gaps for us to attack. We didn't attack those like we needed to.

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.

As in the past, search committees and interested officials from other programs with openings for a head basketball coach have initiated contact. I'm flattered with the interest and the recognition of the outstanding season we had this year. With that success, comes attention and speculation that I cannot control. I have not scheduled any interviews with any other institutions.

Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.

Employers really need them. One employer created two job openings and said to fill them with displaced people from Louisiana.

Fiscal 2005 represented a record year for Red Robin in terms of revenue, earnings, and new restaurant openings - all are milestones for which the entire team should be very proud. We continued to experience good guest traffic growth which is a testament to our appeal to America's families, our strong price to value relationship, as well as the outstanding experiences that Red Robin team members are creating for our guests.

Torin was sucking a lot of people in and that left openings for me. Once I saw the openings, I went in. If it was open, I wanted to take it.

I left a message for him in Copiague, where he was teaching at the time. I told him we had some openings and asked if he was interested.

If you look at last year, Lone Peak had a lot of one-goal wins and ties. The most frustrating thing for them had been their inability to score. I believe that once we work on some group tactics, get openings that we can get guys into, it will open up scoring opportunities.

If you look at the statewide major occupational groups, it's pretty much as we expected. The larger the occupation, the more openings you have. Plus a lot are for more minimum wage and lower pay that would involve less . . . education and experience. And there's a lot of turnover in these jobs.

I've had maybe 10 applicants that came up from the hurricane. We have a few openings but nothing critical.

Don has experience in acquisition and development with a strong focus on implementing brand strategies. Don's mission will be to manage our current real estate portfolio and accelerate store openings and site development.

Their 1-3-1 (zone defense) hurt us the first half. We didn't do a good job against it at all. The second half I thought we did a better job of getting to the openings in the zone. They're a good team. Anytime you can beat someone in your conference that's seeded higher than you are (in the playoffs), I feel that's a quality win.

I realized we had a lot of openings and a lot of guys left, so that was an opportunity for me to get out there and do what I could.

He stayed up and went down at the right times. Sometimes, we tried to shoot five-hole, and he would drop and catch it right in his stomach. He played real well. We just couldn't find any openings in him.

They came in and cut openings in the court to put in tile as an afterthought, but all that did was make more cracks. Eventually the rock underneath disintegrated. That left a lot of ups and downs on the court.

They came off the ball a lot quicker. They came at us a lot harder. Even when we had openings on offense, the running backs weren't hitting them quick enough and they closed them down, ... We might have to revamp some things, get back to playing fundamental football. That's where Glidden-Ralston beat us. They played better fundamental football.

It's hard to believe in this day of the freefall second weekend that we could hold up like this. It's fabulous. When you go back and look in the era of mega openings of $50-60-70 million, this is one of the smaller drops.

Are the midnight openings much earlier than usual for Black Friday? Yes, they are. Does this show that retailers are more nervous this year? Absolutely.

The Forest Service has a theory that goshawks need forest openings to catch prey. Therefore they encourage mini clear cuts throughout the forest to provide openings.

The typical 5 a.m. openings aren't good enough because every retailer does that on Black Friday. This has become a game of who can top this. Everyone wants to start first. It's very clear that the early bird catches the worm for consumers. So retailers are trying to catch the early consumer.

The first half was tough, neither team gave any openings to each other. You had to work hard and make your own.

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.

There's a lot of guys here on this team that have a lot to prove and when next year comes, there will be a lot of job openings so the organization wants to see a lot from these guys.

There's definitely going to be openings next year. But we're on the right track. We just have to have a little more belief in ourselves next year.

There seems to be an acceleration of store openings in Ireland and the flagging of intentions for other European countries is probably the first time they've put that in writing.

We expect strong openings across Europe this morning - the bulk of the U.S. gains we saw yesterday were posted after the European markets had closed.

We gave HKT openings. We were very fortunate to win with the openings we gave them.

I come to these openings regularly. The stock photographs are just so uninteresting. We all know what a woman with a violin looks like. I would expect more from instructors.

I do think the Vikings will act quickly because there are many openings and a few candidates out there who, in the estimation of people who work in the NFL, really make a difference.

I'd spent 10 years learning my craft, and I'm just a professional writer, and how I'm perceived doesn't matter to me in the slightest - because I don't live in L.A., I don't go to parties, I don't go to openings - I just keep my head down and do my job.