Sap Quotations

I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling.

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.

Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Nobody knows how many years Native Americans made maple sugar before teaching to the white man. Everyone's got their little theories. The story I heard was there was a day when the sap was running and some fell into the cook pot.

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Organizations have started to create road maps that will enable their transition to a service-oriented architecture. As such, the SAP TechEd events create a community for success by allowing customers, partners and developers to share and accelerate knowledge surrounding SAP NetWeaver while they discover how existing processes and IT landscapes can be transformed into enablers of business innovation and change.

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

The amount of XML traffic will accelerate rapidly and it's incumbent that vendors like SAP build, buy or partner in order to satisfy the optimization needs for XML performance. SAP recognizes the value of SOA internally and in a sense they're eating their own dog food first before taking it out into the marketplace and that's case with many of the larger software vendors.

That's because it's about 98 percent water and only 2 percent sugar. So you have to have 40 to 43 gallons of sap to equal about 1 gallon of syrup. To get 2 gallons, you'd have to have 80 milk cartons full of sap.

We needed to write extracts for SAP and then create an import facility into Board. But once this was done the system worked smoothly.

We continue to believe SAP is seeing an improving IT-spending environment and is taking market share from global peers, especially Oracle.

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

We have programs... with SAP to take market share from Oracle as the application and database platform in the largest enterprise.

This proves to me that there is still a lot of competition in the marketplace and, particularly, that SAP does not have a lock on the market. What this says is that there's a lot of issues in a competitive deal and that the market system still works for enterprise software.

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

We have lost zero customers to Oracle's OFF SAP program.

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

We are coming to play San Jose for one reason -- to win the SAP Open doubles title. Jonas and I are not doing this just for fun. We think that this will be great for the game of tennis.

There has been a move away from best-of-breed CRM software vendors towards companies like SAP that offer complete suites integrating CRM with other enterprise applications.

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.

We believe that SAP has taken a big step with its partners in exposing opportunities where we can collaborate to realize new shareholder value. Built on our ArchestrA platform and running on the SAP NetWeaver platform, Invensys Wonderware software solutions will bring new capabilities to the dynamic challenge of production and performance management improvement.

We are pleased to be part of the successful SAP NetWeaver rollout, ... Our joint solution helps customers speed up and simplify solution deployment and reduce TCO. HiPath SIcurity DirX complements SAP NetWeaver and mySAPT Business Suite with central identity management for heterogeneous environments. Users are given access to the portal and all applications behind it in one step. Sounds great? It is. We implement it at Siemens.

Each tree will give two gallons of sap in 24 hours.

Customers turn to SAP for two reasons. One is the depth of our solution. The other is the enormous uncertainty of the alternative options.

The world's whole sap is sunk: / The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk.

There are a lot of toxic work environments in local government, and it's because of inequity issues that sprout up. I believe that just as performance teams and empowerment energize an organization, equity issues sap energy, and you have to deal with those.

The sap flow mechanism is driven almost entirely by the daily fluctuation in temperature. Any kind of change that does occur is going to impact the season.

The SAP system has afforded us a lot of visibility and access to information that we didn't have before. We were on at least three different materials resource planning (MRP) systems. Access to information and the ability to analyze the information was limited, at best.

We see great opportunity to expand our business in a number of high-growth markets, including marketing services and SAP consulting and business intelligence, as well as business solution areas such as trading and risk management, customer billing and self-service, e-commerce, and quality assurance.

Boiling too long has happened to anyone who has ever boiled sap, even professionals. Anyone who says he hasn't burnt the sap is lying.

ACS customizes SAP solutions with each client's unique profile in mind. That flexibility, along with our commitment to cutting costs, and staying at the leading edge of technological capabilities, is what distinguishes our hosting services as world class. This contract with TICH affirms our position as a leader among SAP solution providers.

The old farmer's rule is the sap you collected, you boil it that day.

The good news is that Microsoft has cracked the nut. The bad news is, the more successful they are with making the story public, the more they show that the SAP product line is a reasonable option as well.

Compare that to what SAP and Microsoft are doing jointly to provide some useful functionality and you'll see that Microsoft is retooling entire interface around Office and that is much more extensive.

Sales were light and that's giving people a reason to take some money off the table after the great run we've had. SAP is hitting other tech sectors besides software because it's a high-tech bellwether that's being hit by something real.

SAP appears to be the system of choice today.

SAP had its best year ever in 2005. The Americas are now the growth engine of the company.

SAP is clearly taking share in the applications market and that's hurting PeopleSoft and Oracle, ... This is exactly the time for investors to get involved in SAP.

SAP is going to retain a lot of its proprietary ABAP code in developing its next generation SOA applications whereas Oracle's approach is to try to get away from legacy and proprietary code and move to a pure Java J2EE environment. Even though the task Oracle has is more complicated in that they have to integrate applications from multiple acquisitions, they will achieve a more open kind of environment.

SAP is the clear market leader in the U.S. Acquisitions won't be able to change that.

SAP really does the opposite of what we do.

This should have happened a year and a half ago, ... If the deal had been done then, the synergies and market share wins would have been so phenomenal that SAP and Microsoft would not have taken market share away.

This should have happened a year and a half ago. If the deal had been done then, the synergies and market share wins would have been so phenomenal that SAP and Microsoft would not have taken market share away.

We believe momentum for SAP is set to continue. News flow will remain strong...well into 2007.

We have seen two factors drive customers to SAP for their CRM requirements.

Third and fourth tier companies that bounced sharply last year are having a tough time, ... But IBM and EMC did fine. SAP did fine.

This is a major factor in our ability to efficiently and securely deploy SAP across our many remote offices and jobsites. From the beginning, ACS has worked closely with us to make sure our business needs are addressed both now and in the long term.

Industry leaders such as SAP and Siemens leverage the domain expertise of TCS to deliver world-class solutions to their customers. We are delighted to join these prominent solution suppliers in achieving the objectives of manufacturing customers through collaboration with TCS.

If SAP is to have a workers council, then it should be a workers council that is representative of the heart of the company. We have a duty to maintain our unique company culture and values.

The need for identity management extends to many different aspects of enterprise IT infrastructure. Given the heterogeneous nature of today's IT environments, partnerships between enterprise applications suppliers and identity management vendors are an important component of enterprise integration solutions. The partnership between Siemens and SAP demonstrates this trend and will be especially valuable where the two companies share common customers.

The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it's really - yeah, the incumbency - they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash.

It's important to have reporting facilities for the SAP Business Warehouse.

Higher energy prices could sap some strength from real growth, but sentiment is likely to bounce once Katrina disruptions abate.

Before they started acquiring companies, Oracle's E-Business suite was number three behind SAP and PeopleSoft, and if you want to be competitive you cannot be satisfied with number three.

By purchasing Siebel, Oracle has acquired an additional 3.4 million CRM users and the maintenance fees that go with that kind of installed base. However, where Oracle may be able to compete with (German rival) SAP on numbers in the short term, they may have trouble competing longer term on product innovation,

By choosing Windows over Linux for our new SAP solution, we'll save an estimated $1 million in costs over the first four years. We needed performance, security and reliability at a reasonable price, and Linux would have presented greater risk in all those areas. I need a proven IT environment that I'm sure we can support.

By exposing more functions with Web services, they're making it easier for their products to fit in with SAP and Oracle and IBM applications. So you can pull your BI pieces from wherever you want. That's a fundamental change from three or four years ago.

By that time the sap or liquid, which we call coconut milk, has disappeared because it has fed the plant. There would be no coconut milk in a fruit that has started to germinate.

In fact, that isn't smoke, it's steam. Once you have your sap, you boil it down for hours to make the syrup. When the sap is running, we boil all night. If you tramp into the woods to a sugar shack, by tradition, you are offered a taste.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions for the days to come, and everything turns out differently, quite differently. Sufficient unto the day. The things that have to be done must be done, and for the rest we must not allow ourselves to become infested with thousands of petty fears and worries.

The global presence of SAP... The best-of-breed strategy starts to fall apart when you're dealing with global companies. SAP was willing to modify their product to allow us to bring it up in many different countries all over the world.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

These problems were identified back in the 1980s and 1990s, when customer information files (CIF) and ERP were being put into place, but they didn't solve the problem they were implemented to solve. At the high end of the spectrum, with SAP and similar solutions, a company like Unilever or Phillips might have dozens of separate SAP implementations within its organizational structure.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

They are going after existing SAP customers. We've talked to customers and while it is a nice checkbox option to have, it's not the primary criteria they use when selecting an on-demand solution.

They have aggressively wanted to dominate the applications space for the past two years. Their aggressive moves to acquire PeopleSoft and Siebel have certainly put them in line with SAP this year in regards to the applications platform.

It's going to be a very challenging year for the company. Right now, SAP has a better message and better technology. Oracle has the right message and right strategy, but it won't come about until 2007 by their own timetable.

This market has gotten a lot more interesting. SAP has some huge advantages.

I certainly think that there's a very serious question about the economic viability of the Freedom Tower. The prospect that the Freedom Tower would be built and would sit there vacant as essentially a white elephant that would sap the entire cash available to build the other buildings, is something that is very problematic.

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week.

What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

The loss of a trophy CFO like this puts a very interesting question mark on Oracle. Right now, Oracle is doing a pretty good job of making SAP look like a better choice for customers.

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.

Busy people begrudge the days being short. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.

The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?