Long Runs Quotes - Page 14

• I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

  Ice Cube

  Running, Believe, Long

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.

  Richard Lindzen

  Running, Long, Important

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• I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.

  Lorde

  Running, Art, Badass

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• I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run... Let yourself fail... And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?

  Charlie Day

  Running, Monday, Struggle

  Charlie Day's Commencement Address at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, www.businessinsider.com. May 21, 2014.

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• A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Views, Long

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• The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Running, Long, Citizenship

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 5

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• In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Intelligent, Long

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Intelligent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to see our society break down to the extent that that foundational unit of the family that is the hope of survival of this country is diminished to the extent that it literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

  Trent Franks

  Running, Country, Long

  "Rep. Trent Franks Calls Marriage Equality A “Threat To The Nation’s Survival”". www.rightwingwatch.org. October 28, 2011.

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• The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Winning, Long

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand and depending in the long run on the natural rate of unemployment, with microeconomic policies like tariffs having little net effect. Trade policy should be debated in terms of its impact on efficiency, not in terms of phoney numbers about jobs created or lost.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Jobs, Philosophy

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• In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things, they suffer everybody.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Sacrifice, Order

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• The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Average, Long

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• It's going to become clear that the impact of our policies rather than our way of life is what's attracting animosity and warfare on us. And I think there is going to be a surge from the bottom up that will begin to straighten things out. Because Americans, in the long run, are not going to want their daughters and their sons to die overseas so the al Saud family can continue raping Saudi Arabia's revenue.

  Michael Scheuer

  Daughter, Running, Son

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

  Idries Shah

  Running, Long, Silence

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.58, Octagon Press Ltd

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• What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Reading, Reflection

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2011). “You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

  Rebecca Stead

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Regret, Differences

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• ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Greed

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.153, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I think the people who go through more can end up stronger in the long run. They have insight in to what a lot of people don’t have and a better understanding—they can be more open-minded. - Ella's mother

  Jessica Sorensen

  Mother, Running, Thinking

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• Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Fun, Long

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• In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

  Epictetus

  Running, Anger, Men

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Being Strong, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Running

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• When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Things In Life, Long

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