Nothing happens overnight for anyone. To become a skilled, accomplished artiste, you need time to work on yourself first.
The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
When 9/11 happened, it changed things overnight, giving the biggest shock treatment to individual agency. People in the U.S., the absolute stronghold of individualism and libertarianism, had to give up many cherished freedoms and privacies in exchange for the promise of public safety.
Getting married to Anas wasn’t an overnight decision. I have prayed for years for a man like him in my life.
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
Getting our military back on stable footing won’t happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that’s not too much to ask.
I planned for my first film ‘Crook’ – that it would be a smash hit and I would be an overnight sensation. You know how newcomers are, they live in this whole fairytale, like, ‘Oh my God, everything’s going to be so good and perfect.’
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
I don’t really think reviewing music is something you’re going to get famous doing overnight.
As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.
I wake up early in the morning and the first thing I have is almonds soaked overnight, with walnuts and raisins. Then I have one fruit – apple or pear.
I didn’t realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn’t. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
You are not going to put 100,000 police officers on the streets overnight and do the right job. To put them on the streets, to see that they’re properly trained; you have to do it in an orderly way over a period of time.
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking – a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time.
Learning how to be editor-in-chief of ‘Vogue’ wasn’t something that happened overnight.
When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.
It feels like it’s just starting in America and the UK. It’s great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn’t happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.
A lot of dudes have success, overnight success or one-year success but not many have ten, fifteen, twenty in this game so when you can do that is when I look up to you.
I was lazy and I didn’t want to cook or plan my meals. That all changed – and it didn’t change overnight. I had to really make conscious decisions every day and plan and cook.
We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.
I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can’t give you a formula for that.
I’ve gotten to the point where I’m comfortable guarding any position on the floor. It just didn’t happen overnight. It came with a lot of work, a lot of film study and everything.
If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won’t happen overnight, but if you’re systematic about it, the process will work.
Just because my song was being played on the radio didn’t mean I had a load of money. You don’t get royalties overnight.
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I’d been publishing for 20 years.
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.
There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I’m lucky I’m not plucking chickens.
Everyone assumes I’ve become this nice person overnight since joining the ‘X Factor,’ and before that, I was an aggressive, violent chav that just goes around attacking people and swearing every five minutes. It’s just brought to the fore certain qualities that were always there.
I’m a big fan of soups and stews because you can throw everything in a slow cooker and leave it there for hours. They taste great in containers, too, because they sit in the fridge, and the flavors meld overnight.
In terms of what I eat in a day, for breakfast, I love overnight oats, and I’m also a huge smoothie person.
There’s no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.
I’m not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
You could become an overnight star in Bollywood with just single hit, but your fate would change with a single flop. That’s why I do not derive satisfaction however much name I earn for myself in Bollywood.
You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that’s not my journey.
You can’t wish away poverty overnight.
It’s so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn’t have any money, and my only car was mom’s Hyundai.
I had worked my way up at Fox. I started in 2007, working the overnight shift on the weekends. I would do one-minute news-of-the-day updates every hour on programs like ‘Hannity.’
At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.
Gravity Falls’ didn’t just appear overnight – every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists.
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
You don’t just become a success overnight.
We live in a very disposable society, and people want everything right away, but unfortunately, vocal technique doesn’t come overnight.
When I held my first album in my hands, I tell you, there were tears falling down my face. I thought ‘This is it. I’ve arrived. I’m going to be an overnight world star.’
Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn’t an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.
Look at my success. I didn’t achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years’ struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.
I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.
I’m attempting to broaden my novels’ scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.
I was a privileged observer to be there when Celine Dion opened at Caesars Palace and then the second Gulf War started. It was an odd thing to see the impact both events had on Vegas. The place was riding high after Celine, but overnight, once war was declared, it was deserted.
When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you’ll be thin for life.
Cities and regions change. It doesn’t happen overnight, but diversifying your economy is the only real route.
It takes time to restore an old historic car – you can’t just do it overnight. That’s how I look at the administration that came before Obama.
The real rub is finding that authentic self and it’s not something that’s going to come to you overnight.
As a running back, when you get the ball year after year – and I would say three years on the short end and seven on the long side – you reach a point where it seems like overnight, your body changes and you can’t do what you used to do anymore. We see those drastic declines more at running back than any other position.
