Jeff Flake Quotes

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

Rome was not built in one day.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

Change won't happen overnight.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

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.

If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Home wasn't built in a day.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

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

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.

We have to start a process of looking at what's next after we complete the modernization effort.

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.