Top 100 Long Period Quotes

The most unfortunate thing in cricket is not achieving what I set out to do from the very beginning: to be a part of a successful team over a long period of time. I had a little taste of it when I started in 1989, and up till 1995.

To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

I was in business for 30 years, and my experience is that the best way to operate is to work fairly and closely with partners over a long period of time.

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I’m very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

If you stay in the studio for a long period of time, you start to drive yourself around in circles.

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren’t able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don’t get the full life and background of that character.

A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

If you have a lot of injuries for a long period, that makes it more normal to bring in new players.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?

There’s no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There’s as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there’s a huge capital requirement to develop that.

Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It’s a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person. It’s often something that isn’t rectified for a long period of time.

That’s what’s so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that’s one of the things that makes doing ‘Comedy Bang Bang’ or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.

If your work isn’t mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship.

There was a long period when I was younger where people always talked about my size and I was going ‘but look, I can play, though, I can play’ but you look at it, to have a career, 12-13 years, you’ve got to be more than just a brute.

Long-term heterosexual monogamy is still the dominant model: men and women still want to pair for a long period of time.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don’t need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they’re supposed to start liking it, and when they’re supposed to start buying it. And that’s trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.

You need an actor who can maintain a character over a long period of time. If you have a weak actor, it won’t be obvious in two hours, but you’ll begin to see his weaknesses over four or five days.

You need passion and commitment in your sport or else you will never survive that long. Of course you also have to give it your best shot and be responsible for your own behaviour both on and off the field before you can fully enjoy the game for such a long period of time.

Japan’s experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

We definitely don’t want to go through another Ice Age or another natural cycle of global warming. Both happen over a long period of time. It would be disastrous for our civilization, and not just for us but many other species.

I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It’s fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a long period of time.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

I’ve loved being involved in the sport at the time that I have, and I’ve gotten to do what I love for a living for a long period of time.

In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought of me as that, and not as a theater person.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It’s due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time – about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

I’m like a Depression-era person as far as acting goes. It’s sort of like, grab it while you can and make the most of what’s in front of you. The first ‘Avengers’ opened up a host of things that I’ve been struggling to get made for a long period of time.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn’t work.

I learnt at the Euros that that is the level I want to be at. That is where I want to be. The standard of the strikers there was top class. That is where I want to be for a long period of my career.

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called ‘export or perish.’ There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It’s really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That’s not to say that I’ve never done anything but I’ve never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.

My career proves that you can be on top for a long period of time by doing things that come naturally.

I feel like with ‘Hubie,’ it was just a matter of the difference between working on a movie versus a TV show. TV shows, it’s like a long period of time and you’re living there, and with this movie, it was kind of in and out.

For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.

Alcohol – once you drink it, it enters your bloodstream roughly in about an hour’s time and begins to get processed. It doesn’t sit around in your stomach for a long period of time.

Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.

Humility is what makes teams great. I’ve preached it for a long period of time.

Without Kissinger’s work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.

We rehearsed our ‘Scarface’ to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.

There was a really long period of time when, if the newspapers ever referred to me, even if I was talking about, I don’t know, cake making, they would put ‘lesbian Sandi Toksvig.’

For a sportsperson, 1 year is a long period.

There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.