No great thing is created suddenly.
Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you can, and the small gains you make will eventually pay off.
Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.
Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
The BJP's decisions are never based on victory and defeat in elections.
Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
I take it one game at a time, one year at a time.
I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.
Success doesn't happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers.
My brother does a series of movies called 'The Purge,' and they have the third one coming out this year, and then also he'll be starring in the second season of 'Secrets and Lies.' We want each other to win because we are a team, and this is how we've been since day one. That's the end game for all of us in the Hodge house.
