Short Term Quotes - Page 6

• The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the Church - the dynamically orthodox parts of the Church - to seize that opportunity.

  George Weigel

  Opportunity, Impact, Giving

  Source: eppc.org

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• Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term and long-term ruin; the ruining of the city that is happening in the short-term, and the ruining of culture and history that has happened over decades. When you see a building that says so much about the culture that built it being destroyed, there are a lot of emotions. You feel a lot of anger when you see a building being destroyed and realize that it's just a small part of what's going on in the entire country.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Country, Cities, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, People, Doubt

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

  George Will

  Leadership, Pain, Long

  George F. Will (1983). “Statecraft As Soulcraft: What Government Does”

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• 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.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Two, Long

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

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Years, Earning

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

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• With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Sweat, Long

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

  Bill Watterson

  Memories, School, Successful

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• Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation in the first place. But in the short term, alongside other measures, they can be an effective way to make progress happen faster.

  Laura Bates

  Winning, Thinking, Progress

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• Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

  Pete Townshend

  Law, Class, Long

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• 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.

  Michael Schudson

  Business, Agency, Long

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.108, Routledge

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• 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.

  Alice Miller

  Suicide, Bullying, Children

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• Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Winning, Self, Views

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

  Dan Ariely

  Focus, Tragedy, Needs

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

  J.R. Ward

  Beer, Fda, Answers

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.204, Penguin

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• 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.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Mistake, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.243, Anchor

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• In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loyalty, Bullying, Average

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.39, Basic Books

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• I do think whatever the short-term gain for [Donald]Trump might've been by skipping the Fox debate, it was also kind of - it could become a landmark moment. He has now showed the media that he doesn't need them and that he has the people behind him.

  Ryan Grim

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Michael Lewis

  Sacrifice, Long, Rewards

  Michael Lewis (2011). “Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• You have heard the expression 'love is blind'" "I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before

  Nora Roberts

  Love Is, Thinking, Expression

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• 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.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hurt

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Running, Heart, Mean

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

  Timothy Leary

  Inspiring, Memories, Long

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• If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loss, Ideas, Long

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