Term Quotes

Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.

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.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

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.

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

In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

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.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.

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

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.