#term

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#even #i #i can #lose #only

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dedication #determination #drive #endurance #life

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#common #determination #different #future #i

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life. ↗

— Anita Hill

#changed #experience #life #my life #testifying

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court. ↗

— Anita Hill

#everyone #forum #getting #i #listening

Production is something I've never come to terms with. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#i #never #production #something #terms

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#determined #during #economic #i #i am

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#been #call #commission #cooperate #criticized

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#careers #day #die #disappointed #failure

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. ↗

— Epictetus

#character #determine #example #follow #imagine