Long Periods Of Time Quotes - Page 6

• Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.

  Hugh McCutcheon

  Volleyball, Player, Long

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• Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Science, Long, Measurement

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• If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

  Jeff Bezos

  Perseverance, Thinking, Long

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• The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Cancer, Humorous, Long

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it!

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Reflection, Men

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• The energy problems that we face today were built up over a long period of time and are not going to be solved overnight.

  Dana Perino

  Long, Energy, Today

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• I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Artist, Years, Long

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• I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Long, Isolation

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• There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

  Walter Lang

  Long, Problem, Creation

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• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  Laura Linney

  Character, Opportunity, Long

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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• The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, People, Dollars

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• 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.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Oil, Long, Arabia

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• I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Gun, Thinking, Cities

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

  Thomas Keller

  Long, Meals, Periods

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• I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Long, Rooms, Hours

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• I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fate, Long, Paddling

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• In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Ideas, Years, Long

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• If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.

  Brandon Bays

  Block, Emotional, Issues

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• I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.

  Kurt Warner

  Believe, Europe, Long

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• Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

  Zig Ziglar

  Practice, Skills, Long

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• I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

  Larry Clark

  Moving, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.

  Doug Benson

  Long, People, Smoking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, Thinking, Numbers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I had a great desire to make another musical, but this time I wanted to be more ambitious.

  Christophe Honore

  Years, Long, Musical

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

  John Hodgman

  Reality, Long, Germs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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