Time and Effort Quotes

No great thing is created suddenly.

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

I am making art. It's not a job that you've gotta show up to and fill in your slot. This is a dream come true. You get the opportunity to say something, to make a piece of art and hang it on the wall forever. Sometimes you're gonna have to take your time.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Have patience, Radicals—Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special.

When you give a homemade gift, you are giving a part of yourself to the recipient. You can't do that with a mass-produced item.