Quotes About Lagging

Truth is a lagging indicator in politics.

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you're lagging, I may remember him!

unfortunately, facts are often a lagging indicator of what could potentially be important. By the time you are dealing with a fact on the ground, whatever led to it has already happened.

an effort to galvanize the lagging grain procurements campaign, the party leaders fanned out to the main grain-growing regions.

Andy replied with an answer that I did not expect: "CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on lagging indicators of bad news." "Why?" I asked him. He answered in the style resonant of his entire book: "In order to build anything great, you have to be an optimist, because by definition you are trying to do something that most people would consider impossible. Optimists most certainly do not listen to leading indicators of bad news.

As she stared at the restless pixels on the screen, her impatience grew. This agitation was familiar, a paradoxical feeling that built up inside her when she was spending too much time online, as though some force was at once goading her and holding her back. How to describe it? A temporal stuttering, an urgent lassitude, a feeling of simultaneous rushing and lagging behind. It was a horrible, stilted, panicky sensation, hard to put into words.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Don't you hate waking up after the day's already started?" Jake usually asks, like it's a race. As though by the time I roll out of bed I'm already lagging behind everyone else, as if I'll never be able to catch my stride.

Low hangs the moon, it rose late,  It is lagging - O I think it is heavy with love, with love.

Kentucky as a whole has lagged behind the rest of the nation in almost every field of government and public service, primarily because the fiercely independent and uncooperative mentality of the frontier hunter-farmer has remained so deeply and tenaciously embedded in the mass psyche.

Venezuela needs to develop; economic growth is essential for the country after so many years of lagging behind.

The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.

It was Ernest Lawrence, for instance, who elevated engineers to coequal status in the accelerator lab—physicists in Europe, by contrast, "tended to shun the 'dirty' details of engineering," which surely accounted for Europe's lagging behind the United States in accelerator technology, though

It is the effectiveness of that power that is lagging, not its potential.