- 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
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it's a work in progress all day long.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People probably growing up said U.S. Open wouldn't suit me, because I'm a long hitter, I'm a bomber.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends are pretty used to me being an actor, and the ones who have known me for a long time don't make too big of a deal out of it.
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
- Great Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
- Business School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
- Fiddling
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020