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Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“The power never to compromise. .. [to] have the fortitude.. .the guts!.. .the stamina for the long haul.”

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Book:The Mental Keys to Hitting: A Handbook of Strategies for Performance Enhancement

Source: The Mental Keys to Hitting: A Handbook of Strategies for Performance Enhancement

“Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.”

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“I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.”

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Author:Victoria Clark

“Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream.”

Humans Long Country Dream Sleep Contact Gas Stations Cab Haul Sleeping In Roaming Gas Stations Long Haul Living The Dream Trucking

Author:Mat Johnson

“Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.”

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Author:Ann Landers

“A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.”

Littles Long Used Bits Support Band Little Bit Tough Disappear Faster Haul Hang In There Long Haul

Author:Judd Apatow

“It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.”

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Author:Akio Morita

“I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do makes it a lot easier to work, every day, to face the tough spots and heel in for the long haul. Nothing against plans; they work for some people. But for me, if I'd been planning, worrying about numbers, trying to micro-manage my career, I wouldn't have focused on the writing. If you don't write, you're not read. If you're not read, you don't sell. So that's my Master Plan, I guess. Write the books, let the agent agent, the editor edit, the publisher publish.”

“Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.”

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Book:Your Weight and You

Source: Your Weight and You

“Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.”

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Author:Billie Jean King

“Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.”

Ifs Heart Long Sometimes Stuff Waiting Haul Hang In There Long Haul

Author:Rob Brydon

“The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. It is education that allows us to see that we are in this for the long haul, and it is education that will give us the tools we need to build a better future.”

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Author:Bill Richardson

“There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.”

People Ifs Long Actors Acting Stage Missing Goes On Theater Enormous Haul Long Haul

Author:Justin Kirk

“We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.”

World Years Long Country Problem Faces Given Force Lessons Majors Recovery Convince Afghanistan Warfare Magnitude Devastated Haul Lesson Learned Long Haul

Author:Alexander Haig

“History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.”

Source: The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God

“As you give to fund God's needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That's what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it's not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.”

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Author:Andy Stanley

“Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations.”

“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.”

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Author:Erik Erikson

“You can divide airlines into two camps: expensive and cheap. But I believe that we will only distinguish between long-haul and short-haul airlines in the future.”

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Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“There are some things that you can always bet on. One is that when Congress comes up with a new program it never works right over the long haul. Another is, when Congress goes to fix the mess it has made the mess only gets worse.”

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Author:Lyn Nofziger

“Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did.”

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Author:Carol Lee Flinders

“Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.”

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Author:Mark Hoppus

“Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to change a deeply ingrained pattern, you have to build a sturdy dam, dig another canal and reroute the river in the new direction. That effort is rarely successful over the long haul.”

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Book:Life on the Edge

Source: Life on the Edge

“No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.”

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Author:Alan Greenspan

“Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.”

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Author:Rod Serling

“If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect this pattern, so that it will continue a most beautiful pattern next time and next time and next time and next time because we vowed until samsara is empty! Now, that's going to be a long time, so you'd better get prepared for the long haul, and the best way to do that is to really prepare yourself as much as possible in this lifetime, and not waste your opportunities so that we can genuinely benefit beings, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.”

Ifs Way Long Whole Beautiful Turns Next Opportunity Perfect Waste Benefits Long Time Empty Prepared Lifetime Patterns Best Way Next Time Haul Long Haul Samsara

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.”

“Over the long haul, many of those people [in a difficult marriage] will begin to reciprocate, because you are meeting a basic need in their life, the need for love, and they know they don't deserve love many times.”

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Author:Gary Chapman

“I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art - you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners.”

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Author:Lawrence Jordan

“I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.”

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Author:Ross Douthat

“In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that, in certain ways, American Protestants could stand to recover the denominationalism that they've left behind over the last 50 years. They are real values in having a confessional tradition that can sustain your faith over the long term.”

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Author:Ross Douthat

“What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.”

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Author:Nicole Kidman

“If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.”

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Author:Wayne Rooney

“On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.”

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Author:Lisa Snowdon

“If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.”

Ifs Way Needs Feels Long I Can Able My Own Results Situation Fans Faults Best Work Editorials Haul Long Haul

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.”

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Author:Calvin Trillin

“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!”

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

“I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.”

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Author:Arabella Weir

“He wasn't into one-night stands, he wasn't into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn't into acting just charming enough to get what he wanted before cutting loose in favor of someone new and attractive. He just wasn't like that. He would never be like that. When he met a girl, the first question he asked himself wasn't whether she was good for a few dates; it was whether she was the kind of girl he could imagine spending time with in the long haul.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.”

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Author:William Stafford

“A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.”

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Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.”

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Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world”

World Long Real Matter Shows Jobs Accepting Masters Labor Praise No Matter What Blame Committed Technique Sense Of Humor Real World Stakes Haul Long Haul Remuneration

Author:Steven Pressfield

“If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.”

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Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.”

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

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