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.
Traverse City sits halfway between the North Pole and the Equator, and our summer days are long. The light seems to take forever to vanish from the sky, and when it does, it goes out like someone folding a white...
Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.
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Politics lasts only so long - though today it's getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.
No one knows exactly when I got the nickname Doro, but I've been called that as long as anyone can remember.
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
It's not about just how to maximize your finances but make sure it lasts a long time.
I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!
Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things...
I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what...
I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they’ve always been seen.
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
