Quotes About Long-term

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

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

This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Once again, it is important to keep in mind that there isn't necessarily a connection between how much you are enjoying the practice and its longer-term benefits. It can take time for the mind to reconnect fully with the body as countless networks in the brain have to rewire and strengthen themselves.

there isn't necessarily a connection between how much you are enjoying the practice and its longer-term benefits.

I mean, my arms are detachable so theoretically I could leave them behind if I had a little help but as a longterm solution it was really inconvenient.

Even if I knew the world was going to go to pieces I'd still plant an apple tree today

À long terme, ils montent. - À long terme, je suis mort. (Le cuisinier, p. 147)

The wise person is one who can see beyond the immediate and recognize the long-term consequences of their actions.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Not surprisingly, the toddlers who made the transition to their adoptive homes with the least amount of trauma also formed the strongest and quickest attachments to their adoptive parents. They also displayed the fewest long-term problems.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

All choices and avoidances are relative to concrete circumstances. The answer to moral questions is always: carry out hedonic calculus. Measure the advantages versus the disadvantages. Since a pleasant life is the goal, we must avoid or defer instant gratification if it carries disadvantages greater than the pleasure it brings. We therefore sometimes choose disadvantages in the hopes of a greater, longer-term pleasure.

The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.