Term Quotes

• What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Company
  • Values
  • Ethics

• In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Action

• In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.

  

  Karina Longworth
  • World
  • Industry
  • Studios

• 'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Term

• The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get back in spades what you put in in terms of service, not only will everybody’s lives be more fulfilling – I mean can you imagine a society look like that? I’m Bill Courtney and I share hope.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Imagine
  • Share
  • Phenomenal

• Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Different
  • Film
  • Communication

• Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Business
  • Clients
  • Agency

• Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

  

  Tony Blair
  • Long
  • Future
  • Environment

• I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Term
  • Obstacles

• If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Focus
  • Situation
  • Healthy

• I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Understanding

• I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • School
  • America
  • Focus

• Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Term
  • Organizer

• Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Educational

• I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Sleep

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

  

  Aldrich Ames
  • Effort
  • Humans
  • Spy

• I think something substantial will pass out of the House at some point during this term.

  

  Justin Amash
  • House
  • Term
  • Pass

• I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.

  

  William Goldman
  • Real
  • Forever
  • Emotion

• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Term
  • Privacy
  • Appreciative

• 'Career' is not a musical term.

  

  Simon Rattle
  • Career
  • Term
  • Musical

• Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.

  

  Curtis Martin
  • Desire
  • Goal
  • Term

• I never thought in terms of a "breakthrough" film. I wasn't looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wanted to make a film that I really loved. If other people liked it, great. But you can never guess what other people are going to like.

  

  Terry Zwigoff
  • Film
  • Path
  • Fame

• Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Inspired
  • Economic
  • Policy

• Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

  

  Helen Suzman
  • Home
  • Affair
  • Comforting

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