"Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's."

-- Aaron Levie

#Long Quotes #Focus Quotes #Today Quotes

“So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.”
“It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.”

Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.16, Rodale
“Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.”
“Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.”
“We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.”
“A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation ethic that coastal fishermen have developed.”
“Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.”
“I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.”

Source : Marjorie Bowen (1951). “To Bed at Noon”

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