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 can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
I started playing cricket with my brother in our back garden when I was eight. The garden was long and thin, so it was perfect for us to play cricket in. We'd use a crate as the wicket. We broke...
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more...
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day...
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.
As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.
Even a good batsman requires a year or so in test cricket to settle down and play long innings.
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
