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.
My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was...
We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week.
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Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
When I was 23, my Norwegian relatives taught me how to sit still. During the long sunlit evenings in the summer of 1992, my cousins would lead me across the farm to the edge of the forest, each of us...
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
It's funny, because even though on a drama like 'Picket Fences' those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there's a green screen and there's nobody there to to react to and you have to recite all...
I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an...
The Japanese have a long lifespan in part because they eat different forms of algae.
My wife and I are always concerned about how long it's going to take to eat out. You just don't know.
For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without...
I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.
It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.
Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.
