Long Runs Quotes - Page 16

• I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the long run.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Running, Thinking, Clear Goals

  "Singer-Songwriter José González: Live and Let Live". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Running, Pride, Men

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

  David Walker

  Running, Government, Long

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• In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

  Bill Capodagli

  Running, Long, Cost

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• In China, if they open the markets, it will force local companies to compete with international players, and the local companies will benefit in the long run.

  Stan Shih

  Running, Player, Long

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to just do what you think is right. Some people will hate you, but others, in the long run, will respect you for what you've done.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Running, Hate, Thinking

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

  Francis Collins

  Running, Long, Technological

  "The Covenant" by Peter J. Boyer, www.newyorker.com. September 6, 2010.

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• For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Struggle, Opportunity

  "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.

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• I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Educational, Long

  "Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics". 190+ Stories & Sketches,

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• Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.41, Random House

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• The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Long, People

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics

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• Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Memories, Knowing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

  Gary Chapman

  Running, Children, Long

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2012). “The 5 Love Languages of Children”, p.70, Moody Publishers

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• In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Destiny, Thinking

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• He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Long, Luck

  Nora Roberts (1998). “Sea Swept”, p.9, Penguin

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• Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Long, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The way I look at it within myself, why not? Why can't I be the MVP of the League? Why can't I be the best player in the League? I don't see why-why-why can't I do that? I think I work hard, I think I dedicate myself to the game and sacrifice a lot of things at a young age and I know if I continue to do good, what I can get out of it and if that's me going out or doing whatever, I'm willing to do it because I know in the long run, it's going to help me.

  Derrick Rose

  Running, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

  Bill Squires

  Running, Cat, Long

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• We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Self, Long

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a long way too quickly. We may need to ratchet it back a little and set a new foundation to grow for the rest of the year, but continuing at this pace is going to be difficult.

  Michael Davies

  Running, Real, Opportunity

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• We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Running, Spiritual

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• Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Zero, Self

  "Chartism". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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• As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

  Ben Bradlee

  Running, Jobs, Lying

  "Stamina, bravery, brilliance - the great Ben Bradlee had it all" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2014.

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