Term Quotes

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Long-term success is the result of relationships built on a foundation of trust. People get more value from those they trust.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

You get to define the terms of your life.

Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings.

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.