Quotes About Short-term

Working as a head coach always seemed to be a bit short term. You lose five games and you're out of a job.

The future will take care of itself. My plans have fallen flat. Nothing that I planned has worked for me so far. So I don't plan anymore. I keep short-term plans.

I never really look too far ahead, to be honest.

I don't look too far ahead, to be honest.

PATIENT: Doctor, is it common for sixty-year-olds to have problems with short-term memory storage? DOCTOR: The problem is not storing memory. The problem is retrieval.

At the end of World War II, the average holding period for a stock was four years. By 2000, it was eight months. By 2008, it was two months. And by 2011 it was twenty-two seconds,

Short-term memories were associated with synapses being strengthened, while long-term memories came from entirely new synapses being created.

I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

To measure the yield curve I use Moody's Aaa Corporate Bond Yields as the long-term rate, and six-month commercial paper rates as the short-term rate. You can find these figures in government publications, Barron's, and other financial periodicals.

I try not to think too far ahead. I don't think about next year. It's too depressing. I just think about next week.

Assumir a responsabilidade por esse fracasso é mais difícil no curto prazo, mas fracassar com honra é um dom,9 e permite aproveitar a lição mais importante do método científico: se você não pode fracassar, não pode aprender.

lower long-term interest rates (to stimulate spending and investment) and raise short-term rates (to protect the value of the dollar, supposedly).

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

In 1994, the Federal Reserve announced a tiny one-quarter-of-a-percentage-point rise in short-term interest rates, and the bond market went into a mad spin; leveraged hedge funds had been wrong-footed by the move, and they began dumping positions furiously.

In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset -- a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment.

the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness. It balances short term with long term. It balances going for the grade and paying the price to get an education. It balances the desire to have a room clean and the building of a relationship in which the child is internally committed to do it—cheerfully, willingly, without external supervision.

Once you have that sense of mission, you have the essence of your own proactivity. You have the vision and the values which direct your life. You have the basic direction from which you set your long- and short-term goals.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

Expedience is the following of blind impulse. It's short-term gain. It's narrow, and selfish. It lies to get its way. It takes nothing into account. It's immature and irresponsible. Meaning is its mature replacement.

And you still must live with yourself. In the short term, perhaps you are protected from the revelation of your insufficiency by your refusal to make yourself clear. Every ideal is a judge, after all: the judge who says, "You are not manifesting your true potential." No ideals? No judge. But the price paid for that is purposelessness. This is a high price.

Escogemos un camino u otro en cada punto de decisión de nuestra vida, y acabamos siendo la suma total de nuestras decisiones. Al rechazar nuestros errores, ganamos una seguridad a corto plazo, pero renunciamos a nuestra identidad con el proceso que nos permite transcender nuestras debilidades y tolerar nuestras vidas dolorosas y limitadas.