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Automakers are injecting younger blood into the organization to cope with a paradigm shift and lead innovations. – Lee Hang-koo	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
The general vision of Cubans is beginning to shift after being stuck for more than 50 years. – Eliecer Avila	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
We find ourselves in a stalemate that can only embolden perpetrators to continue their brutality, what is needed is a dramatic shift in this council's approach to arresting Darfur suspects. – Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
This ruling, I think, marks a big shift in direction, the Feds will have to be very careful in what cases to pick and potentially prosecute and a sense that there is a vacuum could embolden some people to be less strict in analyzing their information and where it comes from. – David Tawil	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
For now, the U.S. is acting on the Pakistani promise that if the Pakistan army's enemies are eliminated, Pakistan will help reconcile the Afghan Taliban, the spike in attacks against al Qaeda does mean closer U.S.-Pakistan tactics. But it's tactical moves, not a deeper strategic shift ... Overall trust is still low. – Raheel Sharif	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
A child's grief over the loss of a loved one is often complicated by the loss of security and identity, this shift can be very dangerous if there's no support system there. – Annette March-Grier	Found on CNN 10 years ago
It's a very frequent question in Europe - to what extent can we open the borders to let this population rejuvenate Europe, so far the conclusion is that the number of migrants would not be sufficient. The population aging shift is simply overwhelming. – Marko Mrsnik	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
We've never had drugs before with an instant effect. This could create a paradigm shift to help people into a different state of thinking that they can then stay in. – David Nutt	Found on CNN 10 years ago
There's a lot of evidence that (sleep problems are) some of the real reasons why type two diabetes is going up quite dramatically ... weight control, depression, bipolar, anxiety, stress -- there's a lot of quite serious health issues, they're finding things like breast cancer in shift-working nurses against non-shift working nurses. – Nick Littlehales	Found on CNN 10 years ago
There is a tectonic shift in the cash management landscape, one option is to take on more risk. – Alastair Sewell	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
There's a paradigm shift with regards to other ways countries try to hold each other accountable. – Jen Weedon	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. – Laurence Sterne	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Looking at the waves, cresting then hitting the shore, only to retreat ignominiously back to sea, it reminded me that people are like waves. Their moods shift and turn, then crest before hitting the shore, and only some of the lucky few can ride that wave standing up, smoothly carving an intricate pattern as he or she rides towards a sun blanched shore. At times like this, I always like to quote from Macbeth’s soliloquy in act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, when Macbeth heard of his wife’s death. – Drew Allan Cicconi	added by anonymous 11 years ago
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place. – Washington Irving	added by anonymous 11 years ago
I see, monsieur. The auxiliaries are the servants of the verbs. It's only poor 'avoir' which has to shift for itself. – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season). – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Politicians should shift their thinking from how I can balance the budget to how I can attract top global talents, businesses and investments to compete in a global economy. – Med Jones	added by seattle29 14 years ago
Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances. – Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart"	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all. – Casino	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift. – Tom Stoppard	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. – John W. Gardner	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. – Tom Stoppard	added by anonymous 15 years ago
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria – So I Married an Axe Murderer	added by anonymous 15 years ago

Automakers are injecting younger blood into the organization to cope with a paradigm shift and lead innovations.

– Lee Hang-koo

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

The general vision of Cubans is beginning to shift after being stuck for more than 50 years.

– Eliecer Avila

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

We find ourselves in a stalemate that can only embolden perpetrators to continue their brutality, what is needed is a dramatic shift in this council's approach to arresting Darfur suspects.

– Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

This ruling, I think, marks a big shift in direction, the Feds will have to be very careful in what cases to pick and potentially prosecute and a sense that there is a vacuum could embolden some people to be less strict in analyzing their information and where it comes from.

– David Tawil

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

For now, the U.S. is acting on the Pakistani promise that if the Pakistan army's enemies are eliminated, Pakistan will help reconcile the Afghan Taliban, the spike in attacks against al Qaeda does mean closer U.S.-Pakistan tactics. But it's tactical moves, not a deeper strategic shift ... Overall trust is still low.

– Raheel Sharif

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

A child's grief over the loss of a loved one is often complicated by the loss of security and identity, this shift can be very dangerous if there's no support system there.

– Annette March-Grier

Found on CNN
10 years ago

It's a very frequent question in Europe - to what extent can we open the borders to let this population rejuvenate Europe, so far the conclusion is that the number of migrants would not be sufficient. The population aging shift is simply overwhelming.

– Marko Mrsnik

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

We've never had drugs before with an instant effect. This could create a paradigm shift to help people into a different state of thinking that they can then stay in.

– David Nutt

Found on CNN
10 years ago

There's a lot of evidence that (sleep problems are) some of the real reasons why type two diabetes is going up quite dramatically ... weight control, depression, bipolar, anxiety, stress -- there's a lot of quite serious health issues, they're finding things like breast cancer in shift-working nurses against non-shift working nurses.

– Nick Littlehales

Found on CNN
10 years ago

There is a tectonic shift in the cash management landscape, one option is to take on more risk.

– Alastair Sewell

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

There's a paradigm shift with regards to other ways countries try to hold each other accountable.

– Jen Weedon

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

– Laurence Sterne

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Looking at the waves, cresting then hitting the shore, only to retreat ignominiously back to sea, it reminded me that people are like waves. Their moods shift and turn, then crest before hitting the shore, and only some of the lucky few can ride that wave standing up, smoothly carving an intricate pattern as he or she rides towards a sun blanched shore. At times like this, I always like to quote from Macbeth’s soliloquy in act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, when Macbeth heard of his wife’s death.

– Drew Allan Cicconi

added by anonymous
11 years ago

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place.

– Washington Irving

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I see, monsieur. The auxiliaries are the servants of the verbs. It's only poor 'avoir' which has to shift for itself.

– Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

– Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Politicians should shift their thinking from how I can balance the budget to how I can attract top global talents, businesses and investments to compete in a global economy.

– Med Jones

added by seattle29
14 years ago

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

– Linda Dillow, "Calm My Anxious Heart"

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all.

– Casino