Term Quotes

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

I have a problem with the term social entrepreneurship because people say only business helps to make the world a better place.

I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue being a long-term investor.

So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Come to terms with death. Thereafter anything is possible.

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.

We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that won't use the term radical Islamic terrorism, won't use it.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.