- 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
- Economic Recovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then started playing men’s cricket when I was 15. That’s when I stopped enjoying it. It was long days, 50-over games with men 15 years older who you don’t really have anything in common with, all talking about going to the pub.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020