Bram Stoker Quotes

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Change won't happen overnight.

This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

… many think that changes and reforms can take place in a short time. I believe that we always need time to lay the foundations for real, effective change.

The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.

You don't just forget things overnight.

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

Change always takes time.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

It's not like the computer magically does it for you. Animation just takes forever.

Progress takes time and discipline.

Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes time and takes thousands, millions probably, of failures along that path and that's the interesting thing.

We're always going to be trusting the process.

I think if you want to go into politics, you have to take a very long-term view with regards to what you want to achieve. You can't make changes in just a short time.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

When I look at our communities, our country, our justice system, those are things I want to change and I'm committed to changing, and that's going to take sacrifice. Laying the foundation is the hardest part and requires a lot of sacrifice and time.

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time it takes for things to happen.

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.