- 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
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to blinker ourselves, to better monitor our attentional focus. Enforced periods of no email or Internet to allow us to sustain concentration have been shown to be tremendously helpful. And breaks - even a 15-minute break every two or three hours - make us more productive in the long run.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia and China have maintained that people prize stability over freedom and that as long as the central State creates conditions for economic growth, people will be complacent and will be willing to literally sell away their rights. In fact, this very economic growth will eventually catch up with these regimes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We like the John Gruber model - he writes some long stuff that's very thoughtful and analytical, and then other stuff, he just adds a bit of commentary. I like that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
- Shooting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in Hawaii long enough now where people don't make a big deal about me being there; I'm just a part of the community, thankfully.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020