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.
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
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