Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
A lot of people don't believe in me. They think I'm too small for heavyweight. Just like a lot of people told me long ago that I shouldn't box. That I wasn't going to make it. I just knock my...
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing....
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
Nobody wants to sit there and study lyrics the whole time, driving back from work when they just got their check after a long shift. It's not the same. Everybody just wants to be happy with life.
You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.
I've been through a lot and played for a long time, so I can understand what others will go through. That's why I want to help them out. There are a lot of players who go to Belgium, for example,...
I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.
I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
