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Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise,… — Jerry I. Porras Copy Share Image
Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la… — African Spir Copy Share Image
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the… — Harry Markowitz Copy Share Image
In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Bad habits are easy and discipline is hard-and “easy” is where people gravitate. A good work ethic requires a painstaking daily effort.… — Tony Horton Copy Share Image
Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It's like a man walking… — Alan Abelson Copy Share Image
Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just… — Paula Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
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The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
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I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
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People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
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