Best 659 quotes in «term quotes» category

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

Reporters tend to launch on what seems to be the clearest, most stark aspects of someone's life in terms of an interview.

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist at the State Department or the World Bank, when you say the word Africa, they think women.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.

Shambhala can be relevant in terms of what is going on in the world.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

Still, it formed one of my basic beliefs about success which is this: most of the time, success can be measured in terms of how much more than others you have of something that's in short supply. This includes money, reputation, respect, etc.

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

Success is only measured in terms of JOY

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.

So that is new in terms of where I've seen the shifts. Otherwise, it's all about taste and taste just keeps going round and round and round.

'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.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

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

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

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

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

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.

Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.

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

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