Oriented Quotations

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.

I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.

If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.

Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals.

Monthly sales of horse treats have increased from 50 of the former 40-lb paper bags to more than 600 of the new 20-lb oriented polypropylene bags since we switched to the new bags.

More companies in the tech sector are instituting and raising dividends. That's good for investors who are value oriented and realize that a dividend is a piece of a return,

When I looked at who would be the best choice to lead this district, I wanted to make sure that I endorsed a candidate who shared my commitment to the families, schools, and safety of this community. Janet Reilly understands the challenges facing Bay Area families. Janet is smart, committed, and policy oriented -- I trust her to make the thoughtful leadership decisions that will truly move California forward.

Nudity by itself does not meet the definition of a sexually oriented business under the zoning law.

Now we're still seeing patients who are dying of hemorrhagic shock from penetrating torso injuries that would not respond to a tourniquet, so that's an example of where our research priorities should be. They should be oriented toward those particular types of injuries and treating shock from those injuries because we don't have a good product for that. That's the sort of important information that we need to get out of this type of analysis.

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

Since there are issues that are oriented to the future, we welcome the opportunity for a frank exchange of opinions,

She's a pretty remarkable athlete. Beyond her obvious talents - athletic, bright, very team oriented - the level of volleyball that she's played at brings maturity.

To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

Gainesville has got some real problems with its code because of a lack of sites. Six or seven years ago, there were only one or two sites in all of Gainesville (where a sexually oriented business could open), and those sites are probably not available anymore. Anyone who feels like challenging it will probably be successful.

Furthermore, it provides us with the flexibility of increasing the scope and breadth of our resort attractions and our retail and lifestyle offerings based upon market conditions such as increasing population growth, locals- oriented trends, and continued strength in the tourism and convention markets.

I don't think it's something to be portrayed in a positive way down at the Oceanfront where we're trying to bring a family oriented environment.

IBM's leadership in Service Oriented Architectures is a direct result of the investments and focus from across the company to help customers use this technology to become nimble on demand business that can rapidly respond to changing market conditions. The industry leadership of WebSphere software, extensive professional services capabilities and deep industry specific expertise can't be matched by any single vendor attempting to deploy SOAs.

But essentially, it will be a news oriented program. It will be a news program with spinoffs of the news of the day, not unlike what you do, Larry.

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.

I don't believe our city should be opening up these businesses, whether it's because of a light rail relocation or not, ... This city isn't going to build its future on sexually oriented businesses. That's a false economy, and not one I'm going to rely on.

I had just basically gotten tired of working, touring on the road with a vocalist and the whole process of doing vocal oriented music.

We have to be balanced, ... We have to execute on offense but, at the same time, we have to play better defense. We have to remember who we are. I'm going to go with my strength. If I think that we're a pressure team that's going to create turnovers like we did last year, that's what we'll do. If I think we have the personnel to be a little more physical, to be a little more half-court oriented and not press as much, that's what we'll do. A lot of it is about personnel.

He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him. He has a much more easygoing attitude toward the world than I ever knew him to have.

We're proud that our solution oriented approach has helped 160,000 previously uninsured Americans get private insurance.

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented toward procreation tend to discount the importance of sexual pleasure for women.

I think this team is going to be more offensive oriented then we have been. Another of the things that I like is our depth at each position, but right now, we have to work on getting our pitching staff in place and come to the conclusion of who that will include.

Melinda is a very detail oriented person. She comes up with her own system of doing things - she can clean something better and faster than I can.

Overall, our strategy was to infuse the interior with performance- oriented enhancements to complement the Dodge Caliber SRT4's aggressive exterior.

I think (Hudson) is going to be more oriented in listening to doctors and be more open-minded about ideas doctors have. I think he'll be a good fit with physicians here.

I think that's a great deal. This is a stock that was a stellar performer last year, has lagged a little bit this year. But, selling off that division just increased their focus on the more growth oriented businesses, and I think Bank of New York, even after the 2 or 3 point move yesterday, still is an extraordinary value at these prices.

I think it's not oriented as well is it could be for those who need it, especially the low-income people needing health insurance and others who need funds just to live, so I think it's oriented the wrong way and I think it's a little bit too big,

Trey is something special. He (Young) can play a lot of positions on the field, can hit the ball well and is a kid with a good head on his shoulders. Trey is a very team oriented guy.

Most companies today are probably oriented toward legal compliance - gotta obey the rules. Then there are others who say, 'We need to adopt ethical values in the core of how we manage this company.' The best firms are doing that.

We have overfed Europe with oil. Every economics textbook says that surplus supply lowers prices. But we can't reduce supply -- all our exports are oriented toward Europe.

When you?re in Crystal Bridges, we need to make sure the visitor is oriented to both experience, and to possibly use, the walk on the west side as their introduction to downtown. We are trying to identify some other places around the country to take a look at.

We're a lot of different in some regards, but we recognize each other's strengths and interests. He's very numbers oriented, and equipment oriented I'm more of a generalist I'm interested in marketing, advertising and sales. It was a natural breaking up of responsibilities.

There are no major positions being taken ahead of the Fed. I think people are just being very short-term oriented - you see a stock that has a good story and you invest. But you do have to be careful - you don't want to overstay your welcome in any stock.

We don't have Western priorities. We are equally oriented to the west, the east, the north and the south. We want friendship with all.

We don't know if it is still clean or oriented suitably...if not there's no hope. But if it is, we still need a good position.

Our point is that America is so family oriented.

There are many types of investors, ... There are as many different types of investors as there are investments. Many of these investors are very long-term oriented, many are very short-term oriented and they vary along other dimensions, too.

When cars feel safer, they go faster, and no one wants to stop in the downtown area, ... During Lee, the entire focus was getting people in and out of the city as fast as possible. Life was oriented entirely around the automobile.

We felt like down the stretch, we needed more balance. We can't be perimeter oriented and we can't be post oriented.

We're getting more content oriented in the ELL Department...rather than relying on tutorial support.

We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.

We started the game with stops and conversions. Our motto is to believe and, once we got the lead, it set the tone for us. We are defensively oriented and we focused tonight to deny N.C. State's perimeter game.

We knew they were a guard oriented team. That's what made their team go. We knew if we could make their guys take tough shots, we could control the pace of the game and kind of shut them down on defense.

I'm very goal oriented.

It would have been difficult for Goldman not to do well. Goldman is more oriented to equities than debt, and stocks rose throughout the period.

They are a much more seasoned team than other teams having a more senior oriented team. Hopefully we will see them a few more times.

The worst rows were adjacent to the traffic patterns, next to the tractor and combine wheels, which were rows four, five, eight and nine. The best yields were on the outside edges of both sides rows one and 12 in a north-south oriented field.

You become a very family oriented group in here, so a lot of the problems that we have are solved by the kids. It's the kids who push each other.

The school hours for children are the best time for learning, and need the best environment and mission oriented learning with value based educational system.

Bottom line, it was hard to get excited as most of the demos focused on corporate or web/graphics oriented -- making this look more like demos from MacWorld last year, than consumer-oriented killer apps.

We had some folks that thought it was too business oriented so we added two more seats.

We are strongly for families, for marriages, for individuals, for children. We believe a sexually oriented business in our community runs in direct conflict with those values.

We are waiting to see how democratically oriented the Yugoslav government will be.

We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in property values. We are going to have a doggone hard time showing a decrease in economic activity due to sexually oriented businesses.

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.

Project and portfolio management is critical as development is increasingly distributed, as organizations adopt service oriented architectures, and as audits require evidence of regulatory compliance. With IBM's new project and portfolio management software, organizations can more effectively govern their software and systems development projects.

Extol has a platform that can literally cut the time required to integrate these applications by literally 50 percent to 90 percent. I've got people in your organization with a mentality oriented toward manual coding. Until you get that monkey off your back, it's going to limit your business opportunities.

Extol has a platform that literally can cut the time required to integrate these applications by 50% to 90%. If you're a CIO, the hairy problem is that you've got people in your organization with a mentality oriented toward manual coding. Until you get that monkey off your back, it's going to limit your business opportunities.

Both teams are kind of similar in that we don't have back-to-the-basket post players. They're guard oriented and we can handle and shoot it well, too.

Companies should look for solutions to support multiple regulations and multiple business units. Sustainable compliance, that is, a level of effort that is sufficient but not excessive, will only be achieved by consolidating compliance efforts through a programmatic rather than project oriented approach.

Banned Books Week is nothing more than a promotion of intolerance towards any librarian, teacher, or parent who questions the wisdom of giving adult material to children, Schools and libraries should be family oriented toward parents and safe places for children.

That's why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful.

They said, 'well, there's a possibility it'll swing back the other way'. I debated very hard on the whole thing, and just decided sooner or later, we're going to comply. I want to send a message, we're a family oriented place.

The Peruvian economy, in macroeconomic terms, has performed very well in past years. It's been one of the top performers in Latin America with a very dynamic agricultural and mining, and now energy sector -- very oriented toward export-led growth and has attracted substantial foreign investment. So that's all been very positive.

This is going to be the new blockbuster for the region. We're going to attract any number of new conventions and meetings oriented toward history and education.

Initially, the Endangered Species Act created a preservation pattern that was oriented species by species. It made for a complex but not very efficient system.

I've given it less thought than anybody else because months ago I made plans to go on without him, ... When he comes back, it's going to be like picking up a free agent at midseason. We'll try to get him oriented to the system. Obviously, he'll help provide something we didn't have the day before. Other than that, we might be going until December without him. I don't think about it.

I'm very oriented to the environment. I think there are a lot of students looking for alternative modes of transportation. There are different ways to build community and bring people together ? rather than the individual lifestyles we all seem to lead.

I'm referred to as a fundamentalist -- a person who cares about company earnings and where the economy is going -- but the truth is I'm a closet technician. I've learned something as we've moved through the bear market: The last people to find out about a problem are research analysts and fundamentally oriented strategists.

In relationships based on equality, couples tend to develop sexual habits that are more in keeping with both partners' interests. Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented toward procreation tend to discount the importance of sexual pleasure for women.

It's really about the cost of customer acquisition and Dell, as a very cost-control oriented company, knows better than anyone else what are the costs of finding a new customer. This is their best guess at optimum return.

Not only are all of his skills ... oriented toward computers, but even if he were to not want to work in the computer field, it's very hard to get a job of any kind that does not require you to work with computers.

Not only is this is a great fund-raiser for our community but, it's a once in a life time opportunity for families all over the area to come and meet Eric Crouch. People should plan to stay and meet the different athletes that we are bringing in, enjoy the food and games and stay and bid on the many unique family oriented items at the silent and live auctions. It will be a fun day for the whole family.

Anytime you're in a game like this and you know it's going to be a grind-it-out, run oriented game, knowing the type of defense that they have and how good they are against the run, obviously give a lot of credit to the offensive line and running back Larry Johnson for that.

Consumer oriented chip companies are seeing more strength now. The rest of tech is still pretty weak,

The U.S. is much more free market oriented than Europe. That is changing for the better in Europe, but this is not a glowing example of that.

It will be a slow evolution, ... Dividends are a long-term investor's focus and for folks that are more short-term oriented it's not essential. And let's face it. A lot of tech investors tend to be shorter-term investors than average investors.

It will be a slow evolution. Dividends are a long-term investor's focus and for folks that are more short-term oriented it's not essential. And let's face it. A lot of tech investors tend to be shorter-term investors than average investors.

They are highly technologically oriented and expect that new technology will be available.

By adoption of a service oriented architecture focused on open standard technologies, the Commonwealth could be transformed from an IT tower of Babel to an IT United Nations,

He sounds to me like the kind of person Nortel needs. A new Nortel CEO should be top-line, sales oriented to sell to people who may be reluctant to use Nortel because of their reputation.

It was a good move, considering bass are structure oriented and bait fish wind up around bridge piers. Also, shade comes into play, and flow takes place there.

Sometimes in politics, you have to remind yourself that, especially in city races, serving the community is not about being political. It's about being policy oriented and helping people. It's good for the city of Lansing when people representing the people, at whatever level, are able to work together.

The Cuban agricultural, conventional, 'Green Revolution' system never was able to feed the people. It had high yields, but was oriented to plantation agriculture. We exported citrus, tobacco, sugar cane and we imported the basic things. So the system, even in the good times, never fulfilled people's basic needs.

The industries in New York City are oriented to growth, whereas our industry mix ... is not oriented to the most rapidly growing industries.

For a bank our size, this eliminates an investment in a lot of expensive hardware, and hiring of more technically oriented staff. At a small bank, there's a lot of people who wear a lot of hats.

Even when the economy is fully recovered and companies are back in expansion mode, we may not see a revival in hiring of the rank-and-file worker. Cost containment oriented companies, in an effort to become more agile in this increasingly competitive global marketplace, will rely more an more on a just-in-time workforce of contract and contingent workers.

It seems the stock market is more tuned to the bond market now than it has been in the past several months. As soon as we got oriented towards the bond market, all this economic data increased in significance.

The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.