Top 100 Short Term Quotes
#1. I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.
Adam Brody
#2. Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established
George Soros
#3. Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state; they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.
David L. Conroy
#4. Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.
Ben Stein
#5. It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.
William Ruckelshaus
#6. Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.
Barack Obama
#7. The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.
Glenn Hubbard
#8. Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.
Mike Jeffries
#9. I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
Warren Buffett
#10. Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.
Rick Warren
#11. If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
Stephen Covey
#12. I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.
Paula Poundstone
#13. In the short term I want to change the world, In the long term I want to live forever.
Peter Thiel
#14. Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#15. I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.
Keith Stanfield
#16. The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
Anthony Albanese
#18. I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
Randy Pausch
#19. Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#20. There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary
#21. Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over multi-decade periods and with occasional significant variability over the short term.
John H. Sununu
#22. I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.
James Cromwell
#23. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.
John McCain
#24. focused on being grateful and happy for what we already had. It seemed to work in the short term, but old mental habits die hard, and soon I was discontented again with where I was
Nate Golon
#25. Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
Keith Henson
#26. Chronotropic Drugs:
Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.
Douglas Coupland
#27. We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Mike Rounds
#28. Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable?
Donella Meadows
#29. What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
Brie Larson
#30. Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term ... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
Bill Maris
#31. The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
Tony Snow
#32. If the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? Megan.
Nicholas Sparks
#33. Short-term trading is very time-consuming. That is why even "successful" short-term traders can easily have negative real ROI.
Robert Rolih
#34. The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
Indira Gandhi
#35. I'm not pretending this is anything more than a short-term relationship, but I like being with you even when there's no sex involved. That means you're not a booty call.
Georgia Cates
#36. I think so many people are reactive ... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.
Ray Dalio
#37. I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.
Paul Farmer
#38. The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
Ben Bernanke
#39. With same day loans, you can easily acquire immediate funds, so as to deal with any short term financial crisis. These loans are unsecured in nature and can be applied for even by those with serious credit disputes.
Markus Skupeika
#40. Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
Norman Mailer
#41. Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away,
Evan Currie
#42. Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.
Milton Friedman
#43. The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne
#44. You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.
Simon Sinek
#45. The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.
Eugene Odum
#46. The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.
Gunnar Myrdal
#47. When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.
George Soros
#48. 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.
Charlie Munger
#49. One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
Criss Jami
#50. I guess for every government - for many governments, they only have short vision, they only have three-year term or a four-year term. So they have to make sure they get enough support from the voter. So they probably have to deal with more short-term issues which are related to being re-elected.
Shi Zhengrong
#51. While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.
Randy Lerner
#52. I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.
William J. Clinton
#53. Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
Anthony Albanese
#55. The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
Fareed Zakaria
#56. Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.
Barack Obama
#57. Never let fear of short term heartache interfere with your long term happiness.
Carlos Wallace
#58. A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.
Evan Osnos
#59. We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.
Ron Paul
#60. Managers can use power, money or certain circumstances to achieve short-term results. However, motivation is crucial for achieving long-term results.
Eraldo Banovac
#61. Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.
Michael Lewis
#62. Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world
Phil Harding
#63. There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Buzz Aldrin
#64. Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
Mother Teresa
#65. Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.
Ray LaHood
#66. High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can't stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets - many are fat themselves.
John A. McDougall
#67. It's when a society plunders its ability to look over the horizon and into the future in order to get short-term gain - sometimes illusory gain - that it begins a long slide nearly impossible to reverse.
Neal Stephenson
#68. Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.
Gore Vidal
#69. Thus higher-order memorization is a multistage process, involving the transfer of perceptions, or perceptual syntheses, from short-term to long-term memory. It is just such a transfer that fails to occur in people with temporal lobe damage.
Oliver Sacks
#70. Many or most of our problems lie in combinations of market failure and irresponsible and short-term behaviour.
Pavan Sukhdev
#71. Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.
John Wooden
#72. I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson
#73. The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.
Stewart Udall
#74. Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they're more likely to pick themselves up and try again.
Paul Tough
#75. Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
Akio Morita
#76. We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.
Howard Schultz
#77. Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can't remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt.
Vicki Covington
#78. In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
#79. An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
K. Eric Drexler
#80. Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.
Nicholas Sparks
#81. You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.
Randy Carlyle
#82. The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.
Bill Gross
#83. Reuters was completely accurate that I am concerned about the level of the market. But I also made it clear on the conference call (and I believe as Reuters reported it), that it is almost impossible to predict what a market will do in the short term. There are too many variables.
Carl Icahn
#84. Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
Simon Sinek
#85. The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.
Richard A. Epstein
#86. When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to aging, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.
Kevin Warwick
#87. You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.
Eric C. Sinoway
#88. I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility.
Paula Poundstone
#89. If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.
Louis Navellier
#90. Competition forces factory owners to mechanize production, so as to reduce labor costs, but while this is to the short-term advantage of the individual firm, the overall effect of such mechanization is actually to drive the overall rate of profit of all firms down.
David Graeber
#91. The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural development, enhance food security and maintain and accelerate momentum towards the MDGs.
Ban Ki-moon
#92. You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.
Roger Federer
#93. When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#94. Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will
#95. Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness.
Gudjon Bergmann
#96. You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
Yves Behar
#97. We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.
Arthur C. Clarke
#98. A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#99. Denial is a short-term solution that provides temporary comfort.
Thomas J. Harbin
#100. In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.
Alex Ferguson
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