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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.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

Quotes by Will Muschamp

Opinion
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Nov 07, 2020

Anybody can have any opinion they want to, as long as it's an informed opinion.

Quotes by Will Forte

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

Quotes by Will Friedle

History
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.

Quotes by Will Hobbs

Nov 07, 2020

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

Quotes by Wilhelm Dilthey

Nov 07, 2020

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

Quotes by Wilhelm Ostwald

Corporate World
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Nov 07, 2020

I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.

Quotes by Whitney Tilson

Nov 07, 2020

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

Memory
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Nov 07, 2020

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

Drive
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Nov 07, 2020

If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.

Quotes by Wil S. Hylton

Nov 07, 2020

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

Quotes by Whitney Houston

Nov 07, 2020

I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.

Quotes by Wesley Snipes

Nov 07, 2020

Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.

Quotes by Whit Stillman

Nov 07, 2020

I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I take really good care of myself, and I make sure that my body's in tip-top condition, and I stay on top of everything - eat right and do everything else to make sure that I can play for a long time.

Quotes by Wes Welker

Nov 07, 2020

Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

Purpose
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Nov 07, 2020

The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

Nov 07, 2020

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

Nov 07, 2020

One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and a hindrance. Hence, it usually takes a long time before the new concepts are generally accepted.

Quotes by Werner Heisenberg

Mother
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Nov 07, 2020

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Quotes by Wernher von Braun

Long Quotes

On patience, process and playing the long game.

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