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.
If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
When you've been Bayern for so long and it's your second home, moving away from here is not easy.
Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that...
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any...
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style...
A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.
Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish...
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
