Quotes About Timeframe

A one-year budget doesn't mean the government won't last, and a two-year budget doesn't mean it will.

When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.

I do like the whole idea of going to a location to shoot a movie, and there is a start date and a finish date, and a lot of special things happen within those weeks.

There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to 'BTAS.' We never really pegged the decade, but it's anytime in the 20th century, so I often harkened back to things from the '40s or '50s.

which bought me 90 days to raise the rest of the money.

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future, he wrote. In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

For the feedback to be effective, it must be received very soon after the activity it is measuring occurs. Accordingly, an MBO system should set objectives for a relatively short period. For example, if we plan on a yearly basis, the corresponding MBO system's time frame should be at least as often as quarterly or perhaps even monthly.

With poker, you have a resolution of the hand within a couple of minutes. Whereas, even if the thought process in investing is very much the same, you're looking at an outcome that could be 2, 3, 4, 5 years from when you make the original decision. And the mindset related to that is very different.

It would be troubling if everything is determined by whether profits will be made within five to six years.

However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.

I made $400.00 a week for my tenure at GLOW. I was there for about nine months.

maintaining a three- to five-year horizon for your stock market investments should give you a large advantage over most investors. It is also the minimum time frame for any meaningful comparison of the risks and results of alternative investment strategies.

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

With wrestling, you don't have that great of a window if you're a woman. So for me, I'd say around 30 to 35 is where I'd be like 'OK, I'm good.' But if I haven't accomplished everything I've wanted to and still have a chance to, then I'm going to keep doing it.

Don't give me timing, give me time

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

I've given myself 18 to 24 months for Haiti to have electricity 24 hours around the clock.

What she missed most about dating men was that small, disconcerting time frame when you thought that maybe you could change them.