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.
People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take...
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
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As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I...
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.
John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans.
I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?
It sounds so boring - and my brothers tease, 'Oh poor you, pulling pretend pints all day' - but it's very, very long hours, and you're knackered when you get home.
Working at GCHQ was a relatively easy, reliable job. As long as you always toe the 'party line', you are more or less guaranteed a job for life.
I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.
If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.
I've always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.
People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.
Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I...
