Quotes About Long-term

one of the long-term payoffs of this spiritual path. Even while you still appear to be in your body, it's possible for you to attain psychological invulnerability. As the Course says: The guiltless mind cannot suffer.30 But it takes the illusion of time for you to learn your forgiveness lessons and get to your goal.

To me, and to the participants of at the Green Bank conference, the idea that a civilization might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely. We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

Artificial intelligence is very powerful and it can help us do amazing things, but it also has the potential to do great harm. We need to approach it with caution, and we need to make sure that we're thinking about the long-term implications of the technology.

The long-term effects of stress are determined by the pattern of stress activation. When the stress-response systems are activated in unpredictable or extreme or prolonged ways, the systems becomes overactive and overly reactive—in other words, sensitized.

Activating your stress-response systems, even at a moderate level, for long periods of time is physically and emotionally exhausting.

When someone has symptoms in each of those four categories, the DSM label is PTSD. It is really important to remember, however, that PTSD is not the only way that trauma impacts our mental and physical health. The adverse effects of trauma that we discussed at the beginning of the chapter can have just as significant an impact on someone's life. In fact, the majority of the long-term effects of trauma don't manifest as PTSD.

Long-term consistency trumps shot-term intensity.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.... People have been successful investors because they've stuck with successful companies. Sooner or later the market mirrors the business.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Besides, let's face it, a joint mortgage is for twenty-five years. And unlike with a marriage, you can get insurance to cover yourself if something goes wrong.

For too long, we've allowed ourselves to equate targeted bullying with innocent teasing, or dismissed it as pranks and ignored the torment and long-term impact that an incident like this has on young people.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

We've got to think long-term too because I don't think Trump speaks to a lot of young people.

The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

The 'Chicago Sun-Times,' I remember, ran a full-page, front-page photo-shop of me walking on water across Lake Michigan, as if by showing up I was going to miraculously fix the team's fortunes. Imagine their disappointment, then, when I announced a long-term rebuilding plan focused on acquiring young players and winning in five years.

Young players have to realise pretty quickly that it is not about one game, but how you perform over the whole season.

I still want to think long term on a strategical basis but I realise how much joy it brings to be a coach and I am fully concentrated on that now. It is more joyful to develop young players than worry about a budget.

I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.