- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing cricket with my brother in our back garden when I was eight. The garden was long and thin, so it was perfect for us to play cricket in. We'd use a crate as the wicket. We broke quite a few windows.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
- Football Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a good batsman requires a year or so in test cricket to settle down and play long innings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is one long jubilee.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020