Quotes about Short Term

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Votes: 6

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity. Votes: 4

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects. Votes: 4

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. Votes: 4

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there Votes: 4

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles Votes: 4

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency. Votes: 4

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Votes: 4

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause. Votes: 4

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. Votes: 4

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. Votes: 4

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? Votes: 4

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. Votes: 4

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. Votes: 4

Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results. Votes: 4

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important. Votes: 4

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. Votes: 4

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause. Votes: 4

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions. Votes: 4

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now. Votes: 4

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks. Votes: 4

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm. Votes: 4

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development. Votes: 4

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition. Votes: 3

We live in an age where everything is based on the short term. Votes: 2

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. Votes: 2

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term. Votes: 2

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. Votes: 2

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term. Votes: 2

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term. Votes: 2

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it. Votes: 2

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful. Votes: 2

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory. Votes: 2

What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth. Votes: 2

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays. Votes: 2

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. Votes: 2

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks. Votes: 2

We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term. Votes: 2

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences. Votes: 2

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success. Votes: 2

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct. Votes: 2

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? Votes: 2

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit. Votes: 2

Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you! Votes: 2

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. Votes: 2

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them. Votes: 2

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people. Votes: 2

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful. Votes: 2

Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition. Votes: 2

Short-term can be terminal. Votes: 0

Rekindled love is generally short-term. Votes: 0

Goals help you overcome short-term problems. Votes: 0

Short term memory is not good. Votes: 0

There's nothing as short as short-term debt. Votes: 0

Life is too short for long-term grudges. Votes: 0

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest! Votes: 0

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic. Votes: 0

Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects. Votes: 0

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government. Votes: 0

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless. Votes: 0

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world. Votes: 0

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making. Votes: 0

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking. Votes: 0

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates. Votes: 0

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country. Votes: 0

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. Votes: 0

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits Votes: 0

Your short-term memory really is shot! It must drive you nuts!! Votes: 0

Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind. Votes: 0

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem Votes: 0

Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance. Votes: 0

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits. Votes: 0

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ... Votes: 0

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets. Votes: 0

I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term. Votes: 0

People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices... Votes: 0

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success. Votes: 0

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth. Votes: 0

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. Votes: 0

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite. Votes: 0

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. Votes: 0

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices. Votes: 0

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day. Votes: 0

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term. Votes: 0

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run. Votes: 0

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term. Votes: 0

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility. Votes: 0

Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal. Votes: 0

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world Votes: 0

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing. Votes: 0

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility. Votes: 0

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization. Votes: 0

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established Votes: 0

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. Votes: 0

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. Votes: 0

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest. Votes: 0

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that. Votes: 0

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success. Votes: 0

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam. Votes: 0

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. Votes: 0

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy Votes: 0

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. Votes: 0

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war. Votes: 0

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. Votes: 0

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. Votes: 0

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. Votes: 0

If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds. Votes: 0

Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. Votes: 0

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term. Votes: 0

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever. Votes: 0

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. Votes: 0

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties. Votes: 0

Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century. Votes: 0

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions. Votes: 0

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA. Votes: 0

If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it. Votes: 0

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan. Votes: 0

A rival may raise your game in the short-term. An Ally will raise your game for the long-term. Votes: 0

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term. Votes: 0

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading. Votes: 0

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. Votes: 0

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. Votes: 0

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster. Votes: 0

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters. Votes: 0

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. Votes: 0

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time. Votes: 0

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. Votes: 0

Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple. Votes: 0

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. Votes: 0

Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there. Votes: 0

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success. Votes: 0

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there. Votes: 0

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term. Votes: 0

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. Votes: 0

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term. Votes: 0

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. Votes: 0

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. Votes: 0

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning. Votes: 0

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. Votes: 0

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning. Votes: 0

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor. Votes: 0

Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness. Votes: 0

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. Votes: 0

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions. Votes: 0

It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina. Votes: 0

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently . Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight. Votes: 0

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work. Votes: 0

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term. Votes: 0

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age. Votes: 0

Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. Votes: 0

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you. Votes: 0

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one. Votes: 0

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit.. so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs. Votes: 0

I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory. Votes: 0

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it. Votes: 0

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives. Votes: 0

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do. Votes: 0

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication. Votes: 0

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history. Votes: 0

In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms. Votes: 0

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large. Votes: 0

There are more short-term goals right now the way I see it, that I feel are more important right now than maybe the 1,000 points. Votes: 0

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. Votes: 0

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids. Votes: 0

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses. Votes: 0

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. Votes: 0

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today. Votes: 0

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. Votes: 0

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term. Votes: 0

When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term. Votes: 0

A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential. Votes: 0

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses. Votes: 0

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic. Votes: 0

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations. Votes: 0

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. Votes: 0

Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes. Votes: 0

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future. Votes: 0

Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young women more attractive than old women because youthfulness signals fertility. Votes: 0

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher. Votes: 0

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk. Votes: 0

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure. Votes: 0

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. Votes: 0

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains. Votes: 0

When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented. Votes: 0

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions. Votes: 0

When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs. Votes: 0

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations. Votes: 0

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback. Votes: 0

When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work. Votes: 0

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term. Votes: 0

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways. Votes: 0

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. Votes: 0

I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues. Votes: 0

I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it. Votes: 0

Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all. Votes: 0

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price. Votes: 0

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not. Votes: 0

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim. Votes: 0

Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic. Votes: 0

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc. Votes: 0

My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down. Votes: 0

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term. Votes: 0

In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with the advent of television and the upgrading of films. Votes: 0

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important. Votes: 0

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe Votes: 0

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else. Votes: 0

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build? Votes: 0

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant. Votes: 0

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam. Votes: 0

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results. Votes: 0

Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work. Votes: 0

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well - being generally; and, in the long range, the environment. Votes: 0

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now. Votes: 0

Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission. Votes: 0

After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived. Votes: 0

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse. Votes: 0

When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a short-term benefit, but may not be beneficial for the future. Votes: 0

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment Votes: 0

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment. Votes: 0

The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good. Votes: 0

Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer. Votes: 0

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term. Votes: 0

Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled. Votes: 0

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they're more likely to pick themselves up and try again. Votes: 0

Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the long lasting damage it does to your dreams and goals. Votes: 0

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that. Votes: 0

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications. Votes: 0

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves. Votes: 0

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue. Votes: 0

One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones. Votes: 0

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe. Votes: 0

Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect. Votes: 0

You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits. Votes: 0

Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world. 1. Think short term. 2. Be greedy. 3. Believe in the greater fool 4. Run with the herd. 5. Overgeneralize 6. Be trendy 7. Play with other people's money Votes: 0

I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory. Votes: 0

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get. Votes: 0

We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years. Votes: 0

Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel. Votes: 0

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S. Votes: 0

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. Votes: 0

We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term. Votes: 0

Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable? Votes: 0

Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder. Votes: 0

I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals. Votes: 0

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term. Votes: 0

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money. Votes: 0