Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
When people exercise, we talk about endorphins, but endorphins are just short-term. The reason why exercise is valuable is it trains your brain to believe, 'My behavior matters,' which is optimism.
From time to time, an excessively strong dollar may have negative short-term implications on the economy.
People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education instead. This would have led to future productivity increases.
What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/
Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.
If studies come out and show that playing football is detrimental to your health for the long term, even for the short term, I think that's up to the players then to make the decision about whether they're going to play or not play.
