Incoming Quotes

#1. Call center technology enables companies to "score" incoming calls and to give faster service to those that come from affluent places.

Michael J. Sandel

#2. Reaction is just that - an action you have taken before. When you "re-act," what you do is assess the incoming data, search your memory bank for the same or nearly the same experience, and act the way you did before. This is all the work of the mind, not of your soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

#3. To change our eating habits, we must learn to eat mindfully, being more aware of chewing and tasting what we eat so that the brain can register the incoming nutrients.

John M. Poothullil

#4. I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.

Tony Abbott

#5. I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

Dawn French

#6. There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Hugh Leonard

#7. We are creators in the process of our own evolution. In this way, we are gods in our own universe. Self evolving gods, learning and expanding and interacting with a perpetual stream of incoming data

Ruben Papian

#8. Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

John Charles Polanyi

#9. When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

Dan Harris

#10. My friend and coach reminded me this week that there is a moment when the acrobat lets go of one trapeze and is completely suspended in mid-air before she catches the incoming rung. You have to let go to get there.

Danielle LaPorte

#11. The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

Mary Oliver

#12. Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from being successful.

Mike Pence

#13. Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.

Richard V. Allen

#14. Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas.

Robin Williams

#15. All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken stream of Aristotelian shock.

Vilem Flusser

#16. More dragons incoming...

Julie Kagawa

#17. It was as if it never occurred to anyone that blocking the incoming roads was the same as blocking the escape routes.

Sara Novic

#18. Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

V.S. Ramachandran

#19. I'm considered something like a graduate student and we get credits for mentoring incoming students. I definitely got lucky with my first assignment

Kristen Day

#20. Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, incoming!

Lauren Willig

#21. Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.

Richard Wiseman

#22. I CANNOT ALLOW THIS CITY TO EXIST, Zeus rumbled. I MUST MAKE YOU AN EXAMPLE SO THAT THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. LIGHTNING INCOMING IN FIVE, FOUR, THREE ...

Rick Riordan

#23. Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

Richard V. Allen

#24. Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Nathan Myhrvold

#25. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#26. Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.

Clint Smith

#27. The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

Richard V. Allen

#28. I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

Edwin Land

#29. Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#30. The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Charles Murray

#31. The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

Richard V. Allen

#32. Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.

Stewart Butterfield

#33. Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.
I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?
Oh ... yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!

Rick Riordan

#34. My body melts into his hard one until his strong arm, coiled around my small waist, is all that hols me upright. I don't know if I'm bad for him, or him for me. All I know is that this is as inevitable as an incoming tsunami, and I'm just bracing for the swim of my life.

Katy Evans

#35. In 1971, 73 percent of incoming freshmen said that it is essential or very important to "develop a meaningful philosophy of life," 37 percent to be "very well-off financially" (not well-off, note, but very well-off). By 2011, the numbers were almost reversed, 47 percent and 80 percent, respectively.

William Deresiewicz

#36. Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

Maya Angelou

#37. Here's an interesting figure: 43 percent of the incoming congressional freshmen are millionaires. The other 57 percent are Democrats.

Jay Leno

#38. If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

Beverley Mitchell

#39. Needing to express what it's like here ... / Trying to digest the incoming stream ... / And dream it all over again.

Jay Woodman

#40. Incoming Text: Bert will be so disappointed. He had down that Canon would eat you alive by last night. Note to self: Never bet against Bert.

Qwen Salsbury

#41. When words come out of your mouth, do your ears just block all incoming sound waves?

Amethyst Marie

#42. Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.

Henry Mintzberg

#43. The essence of information ... is not its content but its resonance. This is why feeling or sensing things is so important. To sense the resonance of incoming information co-creates a resonant field.

Jose Arguelles

#44. I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.

Scott McCallum

#45. For a breathtaking moment;
I spoke the language of the fleeing leaves
When the sky is shrouded in darkness
Of incoming Ravens in black plumage.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#46. The Pentagon tested an anti-missile system in New Mexico Wednesday. The test was an incomplete success. While the interceptor was shooting down the incoming missile, three thousand illegal aliens walked right across the border under its nose.

Argus Hamilton

#47. Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

Hanya Yanagihara

#48. Incoming!" yelled Poseidon.
They shifted-as much as they could in the cramped space-and Rocky landed in their midst.
"This is not a baby," Hades noticed "I think it's a rock."
He was observant that way.

Rick Riordan

#49. His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations.

Gerhard Roth

#50. 'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.

Richard V. Allen

#51. Given the fact that intuition is about receiving information and knowledge, something that every human being frequently experiences, the choice becomes ours as to whether or not we honor the incoming information we receive.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#52. You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

Billy Tauzin

#53. Scully was appallingly gregarious - so outgoing she was practically incoming.

Karen Joy Fowler

#54. Travelling faster than a bullet, an incoming meteor would be moving much too swiftly to be seen, much less to provoke alarm. (Credit

Bill Bryson

#55. A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#56. Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

Nido R. Qubein

#57. I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."

Regina King

#58. Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#59. In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

Richard V. Allen

#60. He knows only what is right in front of him; she is aware of every incoming sensation that glances obliquely against her soft, fragile core

Steve Martin

#61. He cocked his head, listening, then whispered to the big man, "We've got a group of four, incoming. Don't scare them off with your stench."
Einar growled back, "I smell like angels at sunrise."
"Dead ones," a small man cracked.

Ann Aguirre

#62. We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

Douglas Rushkoff

#63. We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president.

Nina Easton

#64. A gentle tickling on Floyd's wrist announced an incoming call.

Arthur C. Clarke

#65. Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

Chanakya