Top 1200 Short-Term Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950?s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.

There are players who tend not to look at the money short-term: they have a bigger plan.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

The number one problem in our society today is short-term thinking.

A book is not a short-term project. It's essentially your baby, so it takes a lot of work.

Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

Your short-term memory really is shot! It must drive you nuts!!

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably leads to the incurrence of greater risk, which increases the likelihood of losses and severe illiquidity at precisely the moment when cash is needed to cover expenses, to meet commitments, or to make compelling long-term investments.

I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth before public health and well-being. The true enemies of the people ar those who continue to sacrifice our long-term interests for short-term gains. But perhaps we should all look in the mirror.

As a coach, you have to have a short-term memory when it comes to shooting. Let it fly and move on.

People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.

Baseball is my true passion. Skating was more of a short-term goal.

You cannot have lasting success if you are only looking for short term gains.

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

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations.

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

Managers focus on short-term goals versus opportunities or challenges coming down the road.

One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil ? not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.

The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex, long-term problems like the climate crisis. Which brings me to my other major concern - the short-term focus of capitalism. It distorts the allocation of resources and the decision-making processes of companies.

Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.

Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

As treasury secretary, I don't see it as my role commenting on the dollar in short-term movements.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

It's just comical how short-term people's memories are.

Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.

Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.