Richard Ben Cramer Quotes

It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully long time.

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life.

'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.

I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.

I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.

When Dad made a decision, whether it was about family or his own career, the majority of the time, it was for the long term, not the short term.

I feel like I don't have much of a preference. With TV, it's just a longer process, so you need to be more sure that you really want to be involved in it for a longer time than you would be with film.

I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

Runnin' this game for five years, guess that's why my feet hurt.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.