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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

Editing
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Nov 07, 2020

Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20-base-pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells.

Quotes by Jennifer Doudna

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Quotes by Jennifer Egan

Nov 07, 2020

I had been wanting to work out with a trainer for a very long time. I always had a good cardio regimen, but I didn't know how to tone up or use weights properly - and I wasn't sure where to start.

Quotes by Jenna Ushkowitz

Nov 07, 2020

I've long been interested in how technology mediates desire and the way that our phones, an extension of ourselves, foster intimate interactions that feel so personal and deep, despite being relayed through a machine.

Quotes by Jenna Wortham

Girl
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a white girl and not a white girl, identified by other people as black and not black for as long as I can remember - which, in mixed-people speak, means biracial.

Quotes by Jenna Wortham

History
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Nov 07, 2020

Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.

Quotes by Jenna Wortham

History
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Nov 07, 2020

Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.

Quotes by Jenna Wortham

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we'll be good.

Quotes by Jennette McCurdy

Nov 07, 2020

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

Quotes by Jennifer Beals

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

Personally, I like to yearn a little and long for the next episode. On the other hand, I'm also a glutton. My kids love to dive in and eat whole series at once.

Quotes by Jenji Kohan

Long Time
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Nov 07, 2020

Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.

Quotes by Jenna Bush

Nov 07, 2020

Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video.

Quotes by Jenna Dewan

Creations
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Nov 07, 2020

The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.

Quotes by Jeffrey Zeldman

Nov 07, 2020

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

Quotes by Jeffrey Zeldman

Nobody
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Nov 07, 2020

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

Quotes by Jeffrey Zeldman

Bends
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Nov 07, 2020

The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.

Quotes by Jeh Johnson

Poverty
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Nov 07, 2020

No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.

Quotes by Jeh Johnson

Nov 07, 2020

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.

Quotes by Jen Lancaster

Far
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Nov 07, 2020

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

Quotes by Jeffrey Hunter

Health
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Nov 07, 2020

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

Quotes by Jeffrey Kluger

Long Quotes

On patience, process and playing the long game.

You can also browse our Good quotes for shorter, upbeat lines, or the Hindi-language Shayari collection for a poetic take.

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