Quotes about Retaining

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible. Votes: 3

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment. Votes: 3

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work. Votes: 3

It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. Votes: 3

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay. Votes: 3

I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work. Votes: 3

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information. Votes: 1

A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees. Votes: 1

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. Votes: 1

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. Votes: 1

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. Votes: 1

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity. Votes: 1

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that. Votes: 1

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. Votes: 1

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements. Votes: 1

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. Votes: 1

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay. Votes: 1

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. Votes: 1

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. Votes: 1

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate. Votes: 1

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed. Votes: 1

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent. Votes: 1

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time. Votes: 1

I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer detainees from this facility elsewhere... It is in the U.S.'s national security interest to do so. Votes: 1

A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. Votes: 1

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. Votes: 1

The FBI is engaged in a myriad of efforts to combat cyber threats, from efforts focused on threat identification and sharing inside and outside of government, to our internal emphasis on developing and retaining new talent and changing the way we operate to evolve with the cyber threat. Votes: 1

Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency. Votes: 1

Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me. Votes: 1

I need to find a way of retaining creative control. Votes: 0

A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee. Votes: 0

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge. Votes: 0

Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't. Votes: 0

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. Votes: 0

I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one. Votes: 0

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it. Votes: 0

There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so. Votes: 0

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both Votes: 0

I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence. Votes: 0

It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system. Votes: 0

Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities. Votes: 0

A yummy mummy is a dedicated and loving mom who embodies a healthy lifestyle while retaining a sense of the person she was before having kids. Votes: 0

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult. Votes: 0

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents. Votes: 0

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling. Votes: 0

Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage. Votes: 0

We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power. Votes: 0

We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining - indeed enhancing - its economic benefits. Votes: 0

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware. Votes: 0

Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another. Votes: 0

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. Votes: 0

I believe we should continue to have a partnership of national states each retaining the right to protect its vital interests, but developing more effectively than at present the habit of working together. Votes: 0

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it. Votes: 0

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity! Votes: 0