“I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.” LongHardFilmTermChanceMy OwnCareersLong TimeFeatures Author:Duncan Jones
“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.” IfsThinkingWritingLongImportantMatterEnoughWaitingLinesChanceNovelProgressTenPaperComputerSentencesTechniqueCoffeeStuckShopsDescriptionHookJamChances AreNotebookCoffee Shop Author:Naomi Novik
“The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.” GivingWritingLongPlayActorsChancePiecesLong TimeGive MeComicDramaticFacets Author:Linda Lavin
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.” LongTwoEndsEarthLastsLyingEasyWomenNatureChanceProgressOffersFairsClimate ChangeFeministSpeedDisasterFamiliarEmpoweringDestinationSmoothTraveledPreservationFrostForksSilent SpringFork In The RoadTwo Roads Author:Rachel Carson
“The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.” PeopleLongMightMotivationalRunningNextOpportunityRealizingChanceDealsPayBreakFailingFiguresWasteBe GoodRejectionLong RunsNext TimeBounce Author:Seth Godin
“You always have a second chance, as long as you believe you do and you try again, and stay positive and persistent and consistent.” TryingBelieveLongChanceConsistentMmaPersistentSecond ChanceTry AgainStay Positive Author:Urijah Faber
“It's not by accident that this has not been resolved in 50 years, but I believe this is the best chance we will have for a long time for there to be a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.” YearsBelieveLongI BelieveChanceLong TimeIsraelAccidentsAgreementPalestinian Author:Sandy Berger
“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.” MenWayLittlesLongI CanHomeRunningOpportunityJusticeChanceGreaterHe ManGreat ThingsNow And ThenHammersHere And ThereHome RunGreater Things Book:I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story Source: I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story
“Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good.” LongStatesShowsChanceSessionEloquenceHurrying Author:Davy Crockett
“I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.” LongHas BeensChanceMy OwnFateStupidHabitVictoryCallingRevengeArroganceFreakThronesDespotismBad HabitsInterpretingPretenderUsurpers Author:Yukio Mishima