Best 659 quotes in «term quotes» category

Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.

Taking on short term risk can involve switching jobs, joining new groups / associations in the area, launching a personal blog, running an experiment within your existing job. These are some practical ways to inject volatility into your life, and thus some risk.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.

That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.

That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured.

The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly where he started, simply because words are defined in terms of other words, and these, in turn, are defined in terms of still other words.

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy.

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know the news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength. When you can draw that many people, you've got something going. You don't have to worry if the guys in suits are going to put it on the front page or not.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency.

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.