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.
It’s true that looks do matter, but they won’t give you a long, successful career or a happy marriage.
I won, we won, because we grew the base of voters who share our values - not because we tried to talk Republicans into embracing us just long enough to cast a ballot.
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If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.
In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'
I went with a pixie cut when my daughter was really young. It was easy - I mean, it was really easy. But I missed my long hair. Especially after a long winter, all I want is sexy summer hair.
For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
As long as I am forbidden to see the MSPAP, my children will be forbidden to take the MSPAP.
In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.
As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us,...
I have no hips, and I feel like my body's like a teenage boy's. But I can have the hair long, put on makeup, wear a dress, and do the exact opposite as well.
I had white hair when I was 19. I think bleach can be addictive, and before long, you've gone too far with it and can't tell you've got a problem. It was over-processed and genuinely crispy, but I thought I...
I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I...
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
