Focusing on the long-term goal can be disheartening when you’re so far away from it, so it’s vital to have ongoing targets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I’d had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, ‘It’s time to have a look at yourself.’
With snooker, having three months off could have a huge long-term effect on your game. It’s not like football, where there’s a huge margin of error with touch and passing and shooting. With snooker you’re talking about millimetre precision and your technique can vary a lot if you don’t retain muscle memory.
If G20 leaders are serious about sustainable growth and job creation and want to stem migration flows and promote long-term stability, education is an essential investment.
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
You need a long-term coach to be able to win.
We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.
Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to produce food locally. I suppose it shows how delusional the public is, and how our institutional controls have decayed – for instance, lending standards.
As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
The finance world in general is very, very complicated and there are so many different things that need to be evaluated, but I think at the end of the day, the most important thing is how you want to invest your money – if you want to be a short-term, mid-term or long-term investor.
I believe it’s less risky long-term to embrace change.
I’m something of a black belt at break-ups. I have had two long-term relationships in my life, both of 10 years, both resulting in children, and both very much over. Things end. It is how you manage them being over that’s key.
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.
I’d like to see myself as captain, but it’s a long-term goal.
‘Warm Bodies’ was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I’d find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed ’50/50′ because I just fell in love with it.
Markets can’t think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
We’re getting hurt, but I’m a long-term investor.
We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.
Being a Middle Eastern girl in America with a name no one could pronounce was not easy, so I turned to make-up and cosmetics as a way to deal with my insecurities, thus creating my long-term relationship with beauty.
Going to war against Iran – whether one calls such a move ‘surgical’ or ‘total’ – would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
Long-term, Congress needs to replace Obamacare with market-driven health reform that’s affordable for everyday Iowans and empowers consumers.
Reforms to product and labour markets, education, innovation, green growth, competition, taxes, health – they are the things that should be the object of our primary focus in the context of a long-term strategy to restore sustained growth.
If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it’s really striking. There are pockets where employers don’t want to go, but for some reason, in part because of adequate safety nets, people don’t want to leave.
I’m a long-term optimist, and I don’t think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
I’m taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I’m taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.
My hope is that we’re going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.
Long-term effects of taking painkillers and anti-inflammatories are never really good. To find another form of relief has been great.
It’s not a long-term business model to take advantage of your consumers in ways that are not sustainable.
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.
No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
There has been a great challenge in improving educational achievement. It’s a long-term issue, not a short-term one. It includes everything from getting more parents involved to addressing issues of poverty and improving what happens in the classroom.
My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
Investing in more fossil fuel infrastructure will not strengthen our economy over the long-term, since the market is clearly indicating that clean energy sources are the future.
Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord’s side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.
The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers.
Investments in diversity are critical for the long-term viability and future competitiveness of WWT.
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.
By purchasing and holding large amounts of Treasury securities and MBS, we put additional downward pressure on term premiums and so on long-term rates.
When the positions of so many managers is precarious, and there isn’t long-term stability, I can understand why they are loath to risk.
I feel like every person who’s in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs.
Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We’ve been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there’s more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.
The insurance companies aren’t covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who’s going to cover the losses? The fact is, here’s an industry with no long-term liability in place.
The kind of music I’m dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don’t like to be weak.
People at risk of ‘honour’-based violence require long-term support, often years past the closure of a case, for continuing culturally-sensitive psychological support and the development of long-term protection plans.
Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that’s job for six months, then they’ve really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They’re up on their own two feet.
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term – a century-long – error by Europe.
It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.
I do worry that as we try to fix this long-term debt and deficit situation that we don’t destroy the market incentives for biomedical research. What I fear is the government using its considerable clout to say, ‘Here’s the price we’re setting for your medicines.’
People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.
You can build a filter app get people really excited, but the way to keep them is to provide long-term value. Long-term value is, in fact, being its own network.
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
Playing at the Women’s World Cup is my long-term goal and, hopefully, I can contribute to winning a medal.
