Term Quotes

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.

I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

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.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

I like the concept that if you’re with someone, it’s for the long term.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.

What I will do is put America first. People don't like to use that term of America first, but we're going to make America great again by putting America first.

They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.

Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

I want to die on my own terms.

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.