Top 17 Termism Quotes
#1. Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
Charles Kennedy
#2. Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
Edmund Phelps
#3. If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.
Vivian Stanshall
#4. The good gringo asked Lupe if she forgave him for sleeping with her mother. "Yes," Lupe said, "but we can't ever get married.
John Irving
#5. Can you walk the road your dream goes?
Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to.
Who is not.
...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#6. Consider what it would take to actually have free will. You would need to be aware of all the factors that determine your thoughts and actions, and you would need to have complete control over those factors.
Sam Harris
#7. Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars.
'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary, and unanimous. If the sight of the warriors wasn't enough to stoke their curiosity, there was rumor of a 'rare opportunity'.
Laini Taylor
#8. I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.
Bertrand Russell
#9. There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.
Ashton Kutcher
#10. Ll that is necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing. I supposed old Edmund Burke had meant to include women in that. And if he hadn't, well, screw him.
Rachel Caine
#11. But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on something else.
Beau Bridges
#13. My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
Joel Osteen
#14. Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are in the eighth grade you're not better than someone who is in the fourth grade.
Frederick Lenz
#15. You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.
Louis Sachar
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