Short Term Quotes - Page 10

• You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.

  Randy Carlyle

  Memories, Moving, Practice

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• For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Swings, People, Common Sense

  "The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010". www.jewishworldreview.com. January 29, 2010.

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• The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Vision, Use, Research

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• Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.

  David Letterman

  Memories, Heart, Loss

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• One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

  Hilary Mantel

  Self, Denial, Greedy

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Long, Empowering

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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

  Rusty Schweickart

  Running, Long, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.

  T. Harv Eker

  Business, Opportunity, Winning

  T. Harv Eker (2009). “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Robin Meade

  Being Yourself, Pride, Realizing

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• 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.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, People

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.66, Vintage

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Thinking, Myopic, Logic

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• The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, Aspect, Term

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.21, Harper Collins

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

  Jackie Kennedy

  Past, Tears, Gains

  "Warmth In Architecture: Why Grand Central Station Loves Us And Penn Station Could Care Less" by Michael Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2013.

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• For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.

  Peter Welch

  Stars, Recovery, Home

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.

  John McCain

  Numbers, America, Long

  "McCain Softens Abortion Stand". www.washingtonpost.com. August 24, 1999.

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• Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off—and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Motivation, Rewards, Hours

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.8, Canongate Books

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• One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Thinking, America, Years

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• There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

  Evan Esar

  Debt, Term

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• As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity

  Philippa Perry

  Memories, War, Worry

  Philippa Perry, The School of Life (2012). “How to Stay Sane”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

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• As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

  Eskinder Nega

  Pain, Europe, Economic Sanctions

  "A prisoner of conscience's call for sanctions against Ethiopia" by Eskinder Nega, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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• The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.

  Jennifer James

  Children, Memories, Fall

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

  Adrienne Rich

  Long, Optimism, Important

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• The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

  Indira Gandhi

  Masters, Bureaucracy, Term

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “India: The Speeches and Reminiscences of Indira Gandhi”

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• I am long term optimistic and short term pessimistic on immigration. Long term, I'm optimistic because there's a lotta bipartisan agreement outside of Washington on immigration. There's overwhelming bipartisan agreement, number one, that we need to secure the borders. That we need to finally do something to stop illegal immigration.

  Ted Cruz

  Optimistic, Agreement, Numbers

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Character, Achievement

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