Long Runs Quotes - Page 8

• Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Hate, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Running, Passion, Men

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Men, Judging

  "My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. October 29, 1947.

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• I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

  Sissela Bok

  Running, Believe, Government

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.179, Vintage

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• Bad habits are easy and discipline is hard-and “easy” is where people gravitate. A good work ethic requires a painstaking daily effort. Easy typically leads to a life long list of problems but the discipline of having a plan leads to an extraordinary rewarding life. In the long run, the easy way makes life harder and the harder way makes life easier.

  Tony Horton

  Running, Discipline, Long

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• This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It’s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

  E. B. White

  Running, Lying, Silly

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• In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

  John Stuart Mill

  Running, Character, Long

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Utilitarianism”, p.30

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• The foundational skills of snowboarding are what pay off in the long run. That's something I've been able to build over time and that's benefited me a lot. With my age and looking at my career, perhaps I'm more comfortable in my own skin than I've ever been.

  Kelly Clark

  Running, Snowboarding, Skills

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You feel better in the short run when you have a tub of ice cream, but in the long run, you don't.

  Meredith Vieira

  Running, Feel Better, Ice Cream

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Moving, Somewhere Else

  "s anybody out there?: religions and belief in God in the contemporary world". Book by John Bowker, p. 57, 1988.

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• You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

  Michael Novak

  Running, Jobs, Government

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• If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Should Have, Wind

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Long, Infidelity

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it. But know that, five years from now, as fans or prospective employers are looking over your published pages, no one will care that this story sucks because the publisher moved the deadline up or because the editor made you work an android cow into the story. All they will care about is what they see in front of them, and they will hold you responsible for it, no one else.

  Mark Waid

  Running, Years, Editors

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• Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Long

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

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• Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.

  John Bolton

  Running, Korea, Europe

  Source: humanevents.com

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• You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Years, Long

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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• We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.

  Van Jones

  Running, Country, America

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• I feel like a big trend is just to model your success off someone else and I don't think that ever works in the long run.

  Mamrie Hart

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Trees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a short-run solution now, and one that encourages and facilitates the transition to the long-run solution.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Running, Long, Tree

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's even more important in the long run is that very extreme money has affected the ecosystem of ideology in the country.

  Jane Mayer

  Running, Country, Writing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Long, Independence

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• ...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Running, Hurt, Long

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.85, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

  Michael Connelly

  Running, Long, Wicked

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