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.
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.
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As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to...
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
For too long, government officials have tinkered with Mexico's economic structure through piecemeal reforms that seek to ensure political stability but that do not address the key obstacles to greater innovation and competitiveness.
The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.
At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.
My babies and I benefited greatly from our nightly bonding sessions and co-sleeping arrangements, and I'm glad I did it for as long as I did.
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
We saw more of each other than we did of our wives. We wrote everything together. But how long can you go on doing that? How long can you go on being half an entity?
Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.
I'm sure there's a long list of one-time all-stars, and I don't want to be on it.
I went to school in Long Beach, and all the seniors I used to kick it with called me Pac.
