Top 1200 Long Periods Of Time Quotes & Sayings

I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.

You don't win games by batting long periods of time.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

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.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

I would shoot for long periods in Chennai, and now I wish I spent more time with my family. That is what matters the most.

I grew up in a military family, and my dad was gone for long periods of time. Families make it work because you know you care for each other.

The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.

There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.

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.

For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.

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.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

I just haven't found anyone that I want to spend long periods of time with.

I work a lot, so I don't really live anywhere for very long periods of time.

Listen, the conditions in prison as a whole - you're not sleeping in a comfortable bed, you're not eating good food, and this is for long periods of time.

I think when you travel for long periods of time you become quite sensitive and emotional.

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.

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.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that sitting for too long at work is bad for you. So really the only thing we know is, work is bad for you.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.

Songs became little time periods of my life, little tales from certain periods, and you build these kingdoms and memories... they're all little personal relationships and places that I've stored in my head.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over the short term, which sometimes can be as long as two or three years, there are periods when it doesn't work. And that is a very good thing. The fact that our value approach doesn't work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.

So being unable to play for so long isn't where you want to be as a footballer. And if you are not playing for long periods of time, your career is only going to go one way.

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

You will never see me on the bike or treadmill for long periods of time; I just use them for one-minute sprints between sets.

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.

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

Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.

Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.

As an actor, you're not working every day and sometimes not for long periods of time.

When I was growing up, my father was naturally a very busy man and was not around for long periods of time. Despite that he was always emotionally with me.