- Night
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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.
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- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
- Street
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020