Long Runs Quotes

People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run. ~ Tim Ferriss

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run. ~ Virginia Foxx

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run. ~ Neil Gaiman

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run. ~ Ice Cube

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Though waiters always die poor, they have long runs of luck occasionally. ~ George Orwell

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily
in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides. ~ Deborah Tannen

Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not. ~ Andrew Carnegie

But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania. ~ Ed Rendell

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run. ~ Winona Ryder

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. ~ Rollo May

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy. ~ Kevin Systrom

A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place ~ Bill McKibben

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions. ~ John Stuart Mill

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now. ~ Jerry Brown

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. ~ Arie De Geus

Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce the incentives to work and to save both of those who receive it and of those who are forced to pay it. It may be said, in fact, that practically every measure that governments take with the ostensible object of 'helping the poor' has the long-run effect of doing the opposite. ~ Henry Hazlitt

For our purposes, let's say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it's a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal. ~ Scott Adams

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there's rising evidence that the new generation not only lacks faith in communism anymore, they think it's a joke. They're very cynical about their leadership and they want democratic change. ~ Larry Diamond

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire. ~ Akio Morita

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other. ~ Alan W. Watts

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank. ~ John George Nicolay

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes. ~ John Buchan

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks. ~ Sofia Vergara

While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run. ~ Prince Charles

This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinetly. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse. ~ Julian Simon

A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss. ~ Swami Vivekananda

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run. ~ Richard Benjamin

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run. ~ Ha-Joon Chang

In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think. ~ Mark Steyn

Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet. ~ Charles Bukowski

Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. ~ Swami Vivekananda

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody. ~ Al Sharpton

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals. ~ Jerry I. Porras

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system. ~ Michelle Rhee

Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that are not, in the long run, in the interests of the banks themselves, and I would like to think that would change. ~ Mervyn King

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you, must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle. ~ Swami Vivekananda

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking. ~ Adolf Galland

Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be. ~ Jennifer Beals

We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed if we reach the point where we can't adapt to our own increasingly rapid adaptations. We run the risk of early extinction. So this certainly isn't a triumphalist story, but it is trying to get at what, in the very long run, leads to the amazing creatures that we are. ~ Robert Neelly Bellah

Education is more valuable than money, in the long run. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ~ George W. Bush

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind. ~ Francis Crick

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run. ~ Andy Warhol

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better. ~ Matt Damon

In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin ~ Alexander MacLaren

Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run. ~ Gifford Pinchot

When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends. ~ Jonathan Sacks

I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career. ~ Cher Lloyd

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw
if uncorrected
may prove to be the more catastrophic. ~ Denis Hayes

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. ~ K. Eric Drexler

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble. ~ Alan Perlis

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run. ~ Denis Waitley

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays. ~ Kapil Dev

The cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness ... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both. ~ Warder Clyde Allee

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man ~ Rollo May

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run, ~ Aldo Leopold

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads. ~ James Russell Lowell

In the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all ~ Frederick Buechner

You can't have success without trust. The word trust embodies almost everything you can strive for that will help you to succeed. You tell me any human relationship that works without trust, whether it is a marriage or a friendship or a social interaction; in the long run, the same thing is true about business, especially businesses that deal with people. ~ Jim Burke

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. ~ Aldous Huxley

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event. ~ C.S. Lewis

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries. ~ Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis. ~ Ben Bernanke

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. ~ James Q. Wilson

In the long run all love is paid by love,
Though undervalued by the hosts of earth;
The great eternal Government above
Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
Give thy love freely; do not count the cost;
So beautiful a thing was never lost
In the long run. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Low-intensity, high-volume training develops the sort of suffering tolerance that enhances fatigue resistance more effectively than does speed-based training. Fast runs may hurt more, but long runs hurt longer. The slow-burn type of suffering that runners experience in longer, less intense workouts is more specific to racing. ~ Matt Fitzgerald

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess. ~ Ron Livingston

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run. ~ James Russell Lowell

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

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants. ~ Booker T. Washington

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run. ~ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. ~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just a lot stronger (thanks to the marathon) ... By increasing the long runs, I found that does not take anything away from the speed but increases the strength on the track. ~ Paula Radcliffe

Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes. ~ Richard G. Scott

We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run. ~ Steve Yzerman

The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up. ~ Samuel Smiles

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine. ~ Ben Carson

I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run. ~ Lorde

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. ~ Robin Morgan

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. ~ David Harvey

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random. ~ Donald Knuth

I suspect victims; they win in the long run. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals. ~ Gail Collins

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment. ~ Tim Robbins

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story. ~ Alia Shawkat

I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run. ~ Philip Arthur Fisher

The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against inflation, and you always knew which way you wanted the inflation rate to go over the long run
down. ~ Paul McCulley

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive. ~ E. M. Forster

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count. ~ Robert A. Heinlein