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.
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
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I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to...
When you have an ensemble where characters pair off so easily, it becomes extremely isolating in the story world. You can end up with two actors who have not seen each other face to face all season long.
I came to the conclusion that it was unlikely that a man as really awful as I think that Steve Jobs was could possibly create a great company for the long term. I just don't believe bad guys do well...
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation...
My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.
The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.
If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same...
My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read,...
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from...
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
