Karen Civil Quotes

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

For me, you have to prove yourself over 10, 12 or 15 years if you want to be among the best. Do that and then I will congratulate you.

If you want to be a top player you have to play well for the whole season and then ten more seasons, not just three or four games.

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

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.

There's something to be said for being on a team for your whole career. Not many players have done that. Only a select few. That's a goal to accomplish.

It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an overnight success.

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

I used to think weight loss happens quickly, but it has taken a lot of time. There is no secret to it.

I've always been playing because I knew this was eventually going to pay off in the long run for me.

I've been working hard a lot since the beginning of my career, and to play 10 years consecutively in big clubs is not easy, and I try to give my best every season.

I try to focus on the next week and the next game every time, focus on what I'm doing right now and just to continue to improve every single day. If I do that, I should have a good future.

It can be easy to just be a professional half the time, and you may see half the results, but when you're consistent, you can see your full results and you can pan out to be who you want to be year by year.

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.