Term Quotes

Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.

Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lot of my stories also give birth to other stories.

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.

If I know what something's about, and I can always have that touchstone, I feel like I can reach for really ridiculous humor and also go really dark in terms of the things I'm afraid of.

With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.

When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.

The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.

I am sorry I couldn't complete my term as leader. It is necessary for my staff to resign ... to regain the people's trust.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

There are no long-term lessons - ever.

Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.

Fish are complex beings who choose mates, use words to communicate, build nests, cooperate with one another to find food, have long-term memories, and use tools.

I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

So long as you’re not a snap, you’re safe. (Nykyrian) Snap…Syn used that term. (Kiara) Single. Naïve. Amateur. Person. (Nykyrian)

Works for me. For the ones we love, today we’re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)

Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.

The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves.

Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.

Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.

Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.