Long-Term Effect Quotes

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense. Benefits ought to be handed out drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Every choice you make has an end result.

I've had back problems basically my whole career.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

If you're president, it's often your court appointments that seal your legacy with a capital L.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

Once you're a player, you always have a little bit of that in you.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

At the end of the day, our work is what endures.

I still have people coming up to me, and it was, what, six or seven years ago when that finale aired? And they tell me who they were watching with, what their emotional reaction was, and how they were devastated for weeks about [Rita's death in Dexter].

You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.

Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it.

People have called me Ha Ha since I was in elementary school, so that's just what it's been.

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.