Realizations Quotes

You know it's time to change when the one person who knows you best, tells you they don't know who you are anymore. - Unknown

We expect earnings to improve sequentially in 2006 predicated on higher copper and zinc price realizations. - Tony Lesiak

Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological path. I rejoiced to be able to say something of my own, something new and yet completely within the faith of the Church. The feeling of aquiring a theological vision that was ever more clearly my own was the most wonderful experience of those years. - Pope Benedict XVI

The improvement in earnings reflected higher U.S. natural gas realizations and refining margins, both of which were very strong early in the second quarter, but declined significantly as the quarter progressed... The decline in these key earnings drivers, along with crude oil prices, has continued into the third quarter. - Lee Raymond

The game is now universal. Twenty-five years ago it was only for two continents, now it is universal. We have spoken such a lot about problems, why have we not spoken about the realizations under my presidency. - Sepp Blatter

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. - A. Bartlett Giamatti

One of the astonishing realizations that I never expected was the feeling that students could take away a great deal from notoriously difficult literature. 'The Waste Land' is the great example for me, because it's a work of such legendary difficulty, and again and again I have students come in and say they loved it, they dressed up as 'The Waste Land' for Halloween, they keep reading it. I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see students in there just grappling with this monster of a poem and really caring to figure out what they can say, what they can feel, how it comes out, is there hope -- all those questions seem urgent for the students. - Prof. Michael Levenson

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford. - Gerard Arpey

Most of (Chevron's) earnings miss was in the upstream and was caused by weak U.S. oil and gas volumes (hurricanes, declines) plus lower than expected U.S. gas realizations, as well as weak European gas volumes. - Credit Suisse First Boston

It is true that the capital gains realizations have been very strong. Connecting that strength specifically to the tax reduction is a challenge because of the other things that have happened in the economy. [In order to do] that I'd have to plead the need for more research. - Donald Marron