Short Term Quotes - Page 16

• I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• 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.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Long, Three, Environment

  "Magic Mountain" by Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. March 5, 2012.

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• We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Long, Term

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• Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

  Eric Bana

  Disappointment, Years, Giving

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

  Alexandra Paul

  Country, Lines, Bigs

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• There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

  Dara Torres

  Thinking, Practice, Goal

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of China started with the annexation of Taiwan by Japan. If the United States had suddenly declared Taiwan as a separate state - for which we would have had no support among other nations - the consequences would have been giving up our relationship with China and committing ourselves to a long-term conflict with China.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Giving Up, Japan, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.

  Akio Morita

  Running, Mean, Research And Development

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 156), 1986.

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• 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.

  Preston Manning

  Beach, Moving, Fall

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• 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.

  Thomas Malthus

  Expectations, Trends, Population

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• Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our own country. The present economy generates wars to protect its profits and its short-term interests, while squandering the future. Unless we transform the economy, we cannot end war.

  Starhawk

  Country, War, Democracy

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• It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Leadership, Years, Perspective

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• Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.

  Ann Voskamp

  Country, Children, Real

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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• Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Heart, Thinking

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• We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Kindness, Real

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Simple, Political, Credit

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• I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Humor, Thinking

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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

  Cynthia Ozick

  Book, Forever, Political

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.269, Indiana University Press

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

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Leadership, Running

  "Stop Stealing Dreams". medium.com. March 6, 2016.

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

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Pain, Order

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Louis van Gaal

  Player, Long, Clubs

  "Louis van Gaal Q&A: Manchester United boss in boisterous first in-depth interview since taking charge". Interview With David McDonnell, www.mirror.co.uk. July 29, 2014.

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• 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.

  Scott Belsky

  Long, Incentives, Rewards

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• I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.

  Glenn Turner

  Team, Games, Interesting

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• The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Confidence, Baseball

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