Quotes about standstill (16 Quotes)




    During the Sanford administration, economic development has come to a virtual standstill, public jobs have been sold to big, out-of-state corporations, and now one of every 14 South Carolinians is jobless.


    The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to ones self 'the work is done.' But just as one says that, the answer comes 'The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains.' The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.


    Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

    If that weren't enough of an incentive to stay put, the company offered Cross the opportunity to enroll in MBA courses and in various executive development programs. They took a view that one of the challenges for an organization like ours was to foster a feeling of everyone being a manager of the business, ... Their desire to have me become more of a businessman kept me interested in spending my career there. There were times when IT was at a standstill, but at those times there was always something happening on the executive level that made the job worthwhile.


    We will demonstrate to the minister of public enterprises how 'misguided' we can be on March 6, when we will bring commuter transport, freight export lines, business units and subsidiaries, including SA Airways, to a complete standstill for 24 hours.

    While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.



    Even the Greater Manchester Police has fallen victim to an email DoS attack. Earlier this year its chief constable was bombarded with 2,000 emails per hour by cyber criminals in an attempt to crash the force's computer systems, ... Businesses need to realise that it could happen to them too. It is worrying that so many organisations have their heads in the sand and don't realise they are vulnerable to attacks that could potentially bring their businesses to a standstill.






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