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What I saw in some of consumer companies was not good, ... All were nervous about business, trying to figure out what would happen.


Ed Zander

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All of us were trying to figure out what the heck accredited media means.
DAVE NABITY All of were shocked, all of us were stunned. All of us are trying to figure out what do we do now?
WILLIAM HOGARTH Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happe...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I was just reacting to what I saw, ... That's not how the play was supposed to go. But we needed som...
TERRENCE MCGEE I've got a college education and I've seen some of this stuff and I don't get it. I can imagine an e...
CHARLES PACE I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking...
PHIL FOGLIO I think some of them are still trying to figure out what they want to do. Some are still trying to l...
JOE LEONARD They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die...
TOM DELONGE There were four people in the room. We're still trying to figure out what transpired.
KATHY COLLINS I dont know what was wrong with us. Either we were nervous or were just not that good.
ALEX HERNANDEZ Like the rest of us, business leaders cannot figure out what will happen if war breaks out, and maki...
JOEL NAROFF It was all about trying, and that was what I would do. I would try.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
JACK HORNER The cookie all crumbled at one time for us. We had all the questions about our coach, we lost three ...
JAMES COX We're still not good enough. We were scared of what was going to happen.
MARI PEHKONEN We had terrific results, yet we're not firing on all cylinders. The one we're not firing on is our c...
CHARLES PRINCE I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I...
NATHANIEL RICH I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I may have to miss days. I know that's not good...
ELLEN BEAVERS Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
GABY HOFFMANN What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn&...
BETH HENLEY It hit me when we got out there what we were trying to do. It hit me, and I never got through the me...
JENNY PETRIE I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and ...
HAL PRICE We're trying to figure out the truth of what happened.
JAMES SENESCU I'm trying to figure out what happened — what we ran into.
IKE THORNTON We're still trying to figure out what happened in that home.
ERICH DUMBECK I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice p...
FLORENCE HENDERSON I saw two of my crew members trying to push them back and defend the boat not realising what was goi...
ROBIN ALLEN There's always anticipation. I've been watching the Weather Channel, trying to figure out in my mind...
JACK LEGGETT I'm totally comfortable that she has done absolutely nothing wrong herself. But, she's very upset ab...
JOE HOUSEHOLDER I'm just trying to figure out what it says.
ADAM CUMMINGS I guess the first thing I've heard all week from some of my teammates is, 'I'm going to be so nervou...
MORGAN PRESSEL We use business intelligence to figure out how to get consumers to a site as well as to determine wh...
PAVEN R. BRATCH I have called some places, like Germantown, that have done something similar. It is hard to figure o...
LES NEWMAN If companies can figure out what their failures are going to be and how they can make customers feel...
KRISTEN DETIENNE We had known from some previous laboratory work that I had done that there was spectrum information ...
BRUCE HAPKE What we continued to emphasis was being positive in games and in practice. We had to figure out what...
AUBREY EDGMON They were just trying to figure out, as I have done for the last year and a half, who did what to Ju...
BRIDGET BOYLE You are left grappling for answers and trying to figure it out. What was she thinking?
JENNIFER JOHNSON I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It...
BOB BUCKHORN If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What w...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you ...
ALAN JACKSON I felt good. I was really happy to be out there. I was a little bit nervous, but not too nervous. I ...
ARMANDO BENITEZ One is constantly trying to figure out what came together in one's childhood. Lots of people spe...
PAUL MULDOON My wife and I were talking this morning, and I said 'What if all Americans said they were not going ...
EDDIE RODRIGUEZ It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'...
ALAN ALDA When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
PATRICK NESS Digging around the scene trying to figure out exactly what happened.
JAY GATES I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one e...
TOM RATH We had some good looks, especially in the first half, but they just would not fall. We took what I t...
DAN BOLLINGER Most coaches stay up late wondering why their team is not playing well. I was up all night trying to...
DAVE SMART If government were as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would ...
KIN HUBBARD But it was scary because when I met with Cameron, we were both sniffing around each other trying to ...
SUSAN SARANDON Some of the computer-based predictions are not true in real life, despite our best efforts. The park...
STUART SMITH It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get r...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO We were just sitting there trying to figure out what we were going to do one moment to the next, one...
JUDY HARTNESS It's a great budget. What we saw before was DOT trying to build its way out of congestion.
DAMIEN NEWTON I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but...
REBECCA SOLNIT Me and Chauncey were talking in the locker room. We are trying to figure out some way to recognize h...
RASHEED WALLACE If I was on steroids, I would have put a lot of companies out of business that night,
JAMES TONEY We're not as good as we're going to be, but we saw some things that give us an idea of what we might...
DAN ROHRS I thought our defense was starting to figure them out. We like to play fast, but I thought we were p...
ED ORTEGO I met a lot of hackers, and some of them were very arrogant. They thought I was stupid because I cou...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ She's trying to figure out what those guys knew - and how she can get out of it,
COLIN ANDERSON It's been brutal, sometimes I can't get out of my own way. I'm still trying to figure out what I nee...
DANNY WISEMAN We were very nervous. Everyone at the table was anxious to see what the results were. It just depend...
CARLYNN SAVANT We're thinking that no news is good news, that maybe they're trying to figure out what their next mo...
GREG ROLLINS I was nervous, ... And you think about Utah, and all the wins they've had, it makes you more nervous...
AARON BROWN I think there are a few people out there who could have testified at my trial, ... I think they saw ...
MICHAEL WOLFE I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possib...
POWERS BOOTHE I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed be...
GWYNNE SHOTWELL We're not trying to get companies out of their responsibility. It's the way of fairness - you pay wh...
BARNEY BISHOP I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, wh...
MICHELLE PHAN It's not that hard to figure out. I was always good in math.
DEREK JETER I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Intern...
MARC ANDREESEN Customers were demanding it. We pounded our heads for several years trying to figure out a way to pr...
JOE PINKERTON We're still trying to figure out what went wrong with this detection unit.
HERBERT MEADE What we have here is a group of silicon companies who want to try to force the standard to be what t...
GREG RALEIGH There are, out there, some perceptions about what business training is, and they're not always posit...
JACK BRITTAIN My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy busi...
KAREN MILLS We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's bes...
STERLING K. BROWN I think the first 10, 15 minutes we were a bit nervous and just trying to get our feet wet, trying t...
JEFF ROWLAND I was trying to figure out what the heck I was doing. I wanted to get in there and run and obviously...
BRIAN SKINNER Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on f...
DICK BUTKUS I didn't expect to play at all this season, but I thank Brett for giving us such a big lead, ... Som...
AARON RODGERS At first, there was definitely confusion just because everyone was trying to figure out what was goi...
BEN DUDLEY I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is m...
JOEL PARKINSON I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain ...
ART SPIEGELMAN I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an exampl...
ROXANE GAY A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would b...
MATT GROENING The goal was to get second in that race and think about what would happen after.
CRAIG STEVENS The consumer segment is a cash-cow business. The cable companies threaten that cash cow. If the Bell...
JEFFREY HALPERN Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT We came out strong. We were all a little nervous, but there was some confidence. You have to be conf...
ANN BARNEY This made some buyers hesitate; there were people on the sidelines waiting to see what would happen,
JONATHAN MILLER I have no idea what she was talking about. I was too nervous.
DUSTIN CARR There's probably a certain amount of broken furniture at Apple headquarters. I think they're trying ...
JOSH BERNOFF There were some big surprises. I got wind of something like this happening, but wasn't sure that it ...
GUS CAVAZOS It was a lot of fun, ... We were doing what all cops want to do. Everybody was out there trying to m...
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ED O'BRIEN We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
ED O'BRIEN It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
ED O'BRIEN All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab...
ED MCMAHON The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow...
ED MCMAHON Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
ED MCMAHON Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei...
ED MCMAHON You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
ED MCMAHON There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t...
ED MCMAHON There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo...
ED MCMAHON Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be...
ED MCMAHON It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really...
ED MCMAHON Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from...
ED MARKEY The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted a...
ED MARKEY Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
ED MARKEY Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
ED MARKEY