Long Runs Quotes - Page 9

• In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Running, Hands, America

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2013). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.7, Basic Books

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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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• 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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• The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Running, Technology, Long

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

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• ... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

  Wes Jackson

  Running, Long, Community

  Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry (2011). “Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson”, p.106, Counterpoint Press

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• In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, War, Long

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• It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation - none of them - not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Running, Sex

  "The Letters of D. H. Lawrence".

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• Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

  Geneen Roth

  Running, Bad Day, Long

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Oct 06, 2012

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• Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

  Jane Fonda

  Running, Women, Long

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• If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Running, Math, Long

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• Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

  Aldo Leopold

  Running, Yield, Long

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.165, Library of America

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• 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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• The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Government, Long

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.17

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• Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

  F. L. Lucas

  Running, Honesty, Character

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.30, Harriman House Limited

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• Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

  Jerry Brown

  Running, Mean, Long

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• My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

  Dennis Conner

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run. As Lincoln observed, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, Passion, Mean

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.211, Penguin

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• In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.

  Assata Shakur

  Running, Long, People

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.267, Zed Books

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• The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

  Dean Acheson

  Running, Long, Poor Nations

  "Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Running, Writing, Long

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• The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

  Edmund Wilson

  Running, Hands, Long

  Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. Dabney (1983). “The portable Edmund Wilson”, Viking Adult

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• Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Running, Long, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

  Helen Keller

  Running, Long, Risk

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• And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Philosophy, War

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• I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Running, Communication, Thinking

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