Tunde Adebimpe Quotes

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

The key factor in my strategy is longevity.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.

Why is it better to last than to burn?

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.

This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.