Term Quotes
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.
Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.
Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.
In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.
Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
Long term, the PC and workstation will wither because computing access will be everywhere: in the walls, on wrists, and in 'scrap computers' lying about waiting to be grabbed as needed.
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.
Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success
