Sharpening Quotations

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Today's announcement represents another step forward for our Brazilian power business. The sale will allow us to recover our initial investment in the Araucaria plant, sharpening our focus on the significant potential of our exploration and production program in Brazil.

We are pleased to work with Continental to transition our automotive business to an industry leader focused on bringing innovative solutions to automotive customers worldwide. Motorola is proud of the performance and leadership of our automotive electronics employees who will become a valuable addition to Continental. This transaction positions Motorola for continued success by further sharpening our strategic focus on communications solutions that advance our vision of Seamless Mobility.

Bob Johnson tried everything to get him to play with consistency. The trick was to try something different to keep him interested. One time, Nilsson even was sharpening his own skates and it worked for a while,

Congress doesn't have a right to be basically accusing my client of failing by not negotiating transactions on behalf of the company or pushing the computer buttons and sharpening the pencils.

Employers have all the cards, ... Not only are they sharpening their salary pencils, but the screening of candidates is probably the toughest it's ever been.

This transaction positions Motorola for continued success by further sharpening our strategic focus on communications solutions that advance our vision of seamless mobility.

This is another significant step in monetizing our non-core assets and further sharpening our focus on our core content creation and distribution businesses and library in a digital marketplace. We are pleased to sell our studio facilities to a buyer committed to expanding the film industry of British Columbia.

If you need to build a hospital, you're going to build it. But things that are really maybe more spec -- office, retail and things like that -- might be more susceptible to sharpening the pencil to make sense.

It's really exciting to have a conference like this in the western part of the state. We've got VC leaders from as far away as the west coast and entrepreneurs from around the Southeast lined up to participate. Whether you're interested in just sharpening your business and selling skills, or looking for serious capital, this conference is for you.

By sharpening our focus on hotel openings, we will add a tremendous amount of value to the organization. This will allow us to speed up the opening process, so that our franchisees can begin to generate revenue even sooner, while simultaneously improving the consistency of the product and providing more franchise assistance along the way. Aaron was a natural choice to lead this group, and take an expanded role in the company. His track record for operational improvement and experience with business process reengineering make him a great fit for the new role.

By sharpening our focus on these three lines of business, we can better understand and serve our customers. These appointments help us become an even more customer-focused organization.

By spinning off (those) businesses, we are sharpening Lucent's focus and creating another leading company to serve business customers. The newly created enterprise company will rank No. 1 or 2 in nearly every market in which it competes.

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

It puts quite a bit of crunch on the producer who is facing a less than abundant year. Producers are sharpening their pencils. Do they need the same amount of nitrogen they have put on before with conditions not looking so favorable?

This planned sale marks essentially the final step in sharpening the focus on our unparalleled portfolio of unconventional natural gas and oil resources in North America. It is also about concentrating our efforts and investment where we have clear competitive advantage.

. . . for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.