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Quotes About Long-term

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'
~ Amanda Bynes
'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.
~ Jonathan Levine
The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.
~ Bjorn Lomborg
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
~ Bjorn Lomborg
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate.
~ Martin Rees
We definitely don't want to go through another Ice Age or another natural cycle of global warming. Both happen over a long period of time. It would be disastrous for our civilization, and not just for us but many other species.
~ David Grinspoon
The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.
~ Bernard Arnault
If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.
~ Jan Schakowsky
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.
~ Randy Alcorn
You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.
~ Randy Pausch
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person any time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.
~ Randy Pausch
la modernidad existe solo a corto plazo. La seriedad es a largo plazo.
~ Randy Pausch
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.
~ Randy Pausch
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time because hip is short term; earnest is long term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface… Fashion by the way is commerce masquerading as hip.
~ Randy Pausch
I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.
~ Petter Stordalen
Is a concussion going to lead to CTE? No, probably not in most cases. But if you have enough concussions over a certain amount of time, yes, then I think you can lead to CTE.
~ Ann McKee
One of the things you get caught up as a coach is thinking short-term.
~ Mickey Arthur
I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy.
~ Nev Schulman
I have not been a believer of point guidance. It really limits your flexibility to do what you want. It leads to behavior that is not supportive of long-term shareholder value.
~ Ruth Porat
The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.
~ James Hansen
In some ways, the finding that financial education doesn't provide long-term payoffs is hardly surprising. After all, how much do you remember from your high school chemistry class? Unless you use chemistry at work, you probably don't recall much about ionic bonding.
~ Richard Thaler
Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.
~ Mark Manson