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“Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.”

Years Long Said Hard America Views Optimism Cycles Pessimism Realism

Author:Ron Fournier

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.”

Way Trying Looks Long Today Past Views Security Solutions Ideology Inward Static Exaggerated

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am 'the body of Christ and one of its members' (I Cor. 12:27).”

“The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.”

World Long Views Secret Worst Draws Lasting Eastern Ancestry World View Long Lasting Tracing Lasting Relationship Long Lasting Relationship Imagining The Worst

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.”

Long Film Views Journey Commitment Long Journey

Author:Arnon Goldfinger

“Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.”

World Wells Long Country Jobs Energy Views Taken Source Resources Europe Western Granted Australia Revenue Affordable Inventory Western Europe

Author:John S. Watson

“Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.”

Long Doe Views Style Fine Periods Musical Obvious Point Of View Delicate Eloquence Allusion Cadence Declamation

Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

“Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.”

May Long Ends Feelings Success Views Journey Wind Training Stones Feel Good Stepping Stones Pads

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution.”

Long Bits Term Views Race Smart Train Long Term Caution

Author:Bill Rodgers

“In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.”

Long Self Grows Women Views Satisfaction Instant Void Self Actualization Actualization Fill The Void Satisfaction In Life

Author:Amy Dickinson

“I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.”

Ifs Thinking Long Important Views Tomorrow Terrible News Crisis Important Things Constant Cycles Feds Presidency Rail Doomsday

Author:Barack Obama

“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.”

World Long Suffering Term Imagination Views Powerful Imagine Blind Profound Clouds Passing Passings Permanent Analysis Long Term Conventional

Book:The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

“I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.”

Humans Long Law Individual Human Beings Views Saws Subjects Expression Permit Charter

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.”

“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.”

“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.”

Source: Justice

“My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.”

Trying Years Heart Long Soul Done Views Alive Changed My Soul I Am Alive

Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.”

Men Long Made Hands Decision Views Long Time Judicial

Book:Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

Source: Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

“To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.”

“My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.”

“I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.”

May Long Has Beens Fun Challenges Answers Views Direct Exciting Boxes Point Of View Enormous Ministers My Time Fascinating Prime Prime Minister Remarks Unproductive

Author:William Hague

“The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness is as legitimate a part of experience as happiness and necessary in order to render happiness appreciable, or that it is more advantageous to be young than to be old: those still took me a long time to pry loose for reexamination.”

Humans Long Stills Young Order Culture My Own Views Conditions Long Time Unhappiness Human Condition Premises Be Young

Book:The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.”

“Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.”

Giving Long Country Views Responsible Credit Our Country Intervention Troublesome Unifying

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.”

World Trying Long White Views Generations Pages Symbols Southern Flags Confederate Overdue Confederate Flag

Author:William R. Ferris

“As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation.”

Trying Littles Long Seems Views Situation Environment Becoming Approach Concerned Tragedy Stuck Pessimistic

Author:Frans de Waal

“I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.”

Ifs Needs Feels Years Long Play Able Views Acting Class Roles Couple Empty Theater Pool Vacation Shallow Acting Classes

Author:Alan Tudyk

“You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.”

Looks Long Views Nerves

Author:Laura Lee

“Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.”

Years Long Country Beautiful Views Please Scene Novelty Scrutiny

Book:William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

“Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.”

World Firsts Mean Long Has Beens Government Lasts Force Parent Views Mankind Policy Intention Endure Confusion Fraud Good Intentions Refined

Book:The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

“I`ve always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn`t get too high, doesn`t get too low and seizes the opportunities when they`re there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He`s a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time.”

Knows Long Body Guy Opportunity Views Know How Conversation Lows Wave Barack Right Time Hawaii Surfer

Author:Howard Fineman

“Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.”

Long Turns Lost Hours Memories Views Sweet Flower Gentle Streams Fairy Shade Sail Gale Greener Sweet Memories

Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

“Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other to death, but it won't work any longer because we are living too long and divorce is needed today to do what death acomplished more economically before.”

People Long Today Views Needed Boring Divorce Grandparent Breadwinner

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.”

“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.”

Writing Long Film Fall Three Actors Stuff Views Millions Video Seconds Bowls Toilets Kitten Good Actors Short Films

Author:Ben Schwartz

“In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.”

Years Long Body Poor Views Exercise Late Hungry Vulnerable Diets Regimes New Year Teens Body Image

Author:Arabella Weir

“Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.”

Mind Long Book Whole Spiritual Reading Christ Dark Views Principles Sun Losing Sight Difficulty Spiritual Knowledge Reading The Bible

Book:Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

“It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.”

Men Long Reason Views Gun Conviction No Reason Target

Author:Jeff Cooper

“My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.”

Long Term My Own Views Company Long Term

Author:Jeff Bezos

“I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would have all those who think they are Messiah on her show, and we'd have six people who all claimed to be the Messiah, and we'd have got rid of Jesus and laughed him out of town. So as long as the Jesus that I'm hearing is there, I don't find him very comfortable.”

People Ifs Thinking Long States Shows Jesus Views Talking Six Comfortable Towns Hearing Point Of View Laughed Messiah

Author:John Dominic Crossan

“It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.”

Long Ends Hands Law Process Wealth Views Poverty Weakness Point Of View Giants Replaced Bureaucracy Rule Of Law Wealth And Success

Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process”

“Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.”

Persons Long Doe Games Speak Views Personality Point Of View Employers

Author:Gordon Taylor

“You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.”

Ifs Knows Long Today Life Is Next Views Week Tomorrow Lucky Next Week Today And Tomorrow

Author:Garrison Keillor

“From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.”

Long Law Views Mankind Century Events Discovery Significant Judged Nineteenth Century Insignificance Maxwell Significant Events

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

“People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.”

People Want Mind Long War Moving Views Ought Long Time

Author:David Frum

“We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue is not who gives the care but the quality of that care,... The guilt trip is, in my view, a hangover of another era and of unacknowledged tactics to keep women in their proper place--at home full-time.”

Knows Giving Wells Long Home Care Views Quality Issues Baby Guilt Eras Tactics Hangover Good Quality Guilt Trip

Author:Sandra Scarr

“I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.”

People Thinking Long Order Process Views Principles Innovation Constant Instinct Core Defined Breakthrough Renewal Rigor

Author:Christopher Galvin

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