Long Term Quotes - Page 18

• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

  George Will

  Leadership, Pain, Long

  George F. Will (1983). “Statecraft As Soulcraft: What Government Does”

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• Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally should read Gandhi and King and dedicate themselves to disciplined, long-term, non-violent disruption of business as usual - especially disruption of traffic.

  Naomi Wolf

  Kings, Long, Peaceful

  "How to Occupy the moral and political high ground" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• 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.

  Fareed Zakaria

  America, Long, Feelings

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• The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

  Francis Collins

  Long, Lifestyle, Behavior

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• Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

  Felicia Day

  Media, Impact, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

  Helen Fisher

  Views, Long, Globalization

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• We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

  Helen Fisher

  Long, Term, Restlessness

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• A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Long, Moments, Investment

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.88, Penguin

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• Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Long, Derivatives, Assets

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.88, Penguin

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• Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

  Joyce Brothers

  Brother, Memories, Believe

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• Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Suicidal, Science, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.176, Ballantine Books

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• Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Women, Love You

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

  Jasper Fforde

  Reading, Eggs, Long

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.307, Penguin

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• Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while.

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Girlfriend, Lying, Moving

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• I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Disappointment, Thinking, Long

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

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Long, Missing, Insanity

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Infinity: Chronicles of Nick”, p.281, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

  Paul Neilan

  Long, Drunk, Half

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• I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Long, Enough, Term

  Cecelia Ahern (2008). “A Place Called Here”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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

  David Mitchell

  War, Views, Long

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.443, Random House Group

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• With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Sweat, Long

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

  Bill Watterson

  Memories, School, Successful

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• We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hero, Long, Effort

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• We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Memories, Long, Risk

  Nicholas G. Carr (2010). “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Mistake, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.243, Anchor

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• God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants us to become perfect,2 and if we stay on the path of discipleship, one day we will. It’s OK that you’re not quite there yet. Keep working on it, but stop punishing yourself.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Long, Perfect, Goal

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