Term Quotes

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

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

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.

The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.

If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

The term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

When you think, you think in terms of your culture.

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.

Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term.

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

I've actually trademarked the term 'Momager,' which is what I am.