- Looking
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
- Affection
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- Nov 07, 2020
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
- Hard Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I save all the energy until I get on the stage and then I have a burst of energy and look like I've been jamming all day long. But other than that, I'm a granddad, great granddad.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020