Top 100 Over A Period Of Time Quotes

#1. Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

Nir Eyal

#2. Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

Ben Stein

#3. It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.

Noah Baumbach

#4. All of us are not born with equal opportunities. But over a period of time, regardless of our parentage, place of birth, prospects in our communities, or education, the day comes when we have to make the choice to let our past teach us - or beat us.

Zig Ziglar

#5. Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

Bud Wilkinson

#6. Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.

Stephen Sondheim

#7. The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time

Darren Rowse

#8. Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

Zig Ziglar

#9. Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.

Jeb Bush

#10. Good things don't happen very fast. They need to build, little by little, over a long period of time.

Tassa Desalada

#11. The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Steven Soderbergh

#12. And then the last album, 'Get It', was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

Dave Edmunds

#13. I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area.

Robert Rauschenberg

#14. I give myself time with a guitar and PA to let my subconscious do its thing. This happens repeatedly over a period of time, and slowly, a set of songs emerge that make some sort of sense to me as a body of work that turns into an album.

Scout Niblett

#15. Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection
intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.

Jess C. Scott

#16. Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'

Mike Nichols

#17. Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alanis Morissette

#18. He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time
he is a child.

Jens Bjorneboe

#19. It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Matthew Sweet

#20. If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.

Yogi Bhajan

#21. You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

Harbhajan Singh

#22. When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

Yukio Mishima

#23. That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.

Charles C. Ryrie

#24. I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.

Lawrence Schiller

#25. To shine and outshine the shining stars, to take your abilities to the greatest height, to sit on top of the world, you must fortify yourself with persistence, the determination and willingness to stay in the same direction over a long period of time whatever the cost might be.

Ogwo David Emenike

#26. I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

Bonnie Raitt

#27. If you can maintain the diet over a period of time, that's very good.
If you're taking statins and you're not following a diet, you could partially undo the effects of statins.

Antonio Gotto

#28. You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President.

George W. Bush

#29. There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.

Wes Craven

#30. I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

Harvey Fierstein

#31. With every film, we form a small little world for a period of time. Everybody is close, and then one fine day everything is over. That can throw you off. So you have to learn to take things in your stride and not get too emotional about people or situations.

Katrina Kaif

#32. To know a person's character you must at least have talked with him, and unless you are gifted with remarkable intuitive insight you are not likely to know much about him unless you have seen him living and acting over a considerable period of time.

Aldous Huxley

#33. Training is the word we use now. To train means to teach a particular skill over a period of time. Every time you get up, show up, work out, you are training yourself to be better, to live happier and healthier. Don't expect results in a snap. Remember, change takes however long it takes.

Toni Sorenson

#34. The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.

Bobby Seale

#35. A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time.

Thomas Keller

#36. I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

Anson Mount

#37. You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.

Antonio Damasio

#38. We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.

Nina Fedoroff

#39. Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#40. Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

T Bone Burnett

#41. Just keeping yourself interested and motivated to train over a long period of time is often the biggest hurdle and one of the biggest factors for success in building sustainable muscle.

Craig Cecil

#42. For over a long period of time there's little in life so disheartening as constant cold - not deep enough to kill, mayhap, but always there, stealing your energy and your will and your body-fat, an ounce at a time.

Stephen King

#43. Bonds, as we saw in Chapter 2, are no more than promises by governments to pay interest and ultimately repay principal over a specified period of time. Either through default or through currency depreciation, many governments have failed to honour those promises.

Niall Ferguson

#44. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

Wendy O. Williams

#45. Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.

Conor Oberst

#46. When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time it develops an ideology (feudalism, racism, etc.). All historical civilizations are patriarchies: their ideology is male supremacy.

Kate Millett

#47. By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.

John Podhoretz

#48. PROMISING, VOWING...cannot earn us trust. Trust can't be generated overnight. No SHORT CUT! It takes DOING over a very long period of time.

Assegid Habtewold

#49. I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

Dick Cheney

#50. We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

John Hodgman

#51. We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.

James Madison

#52. A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

Lester Bowie

#53. Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

John Key

#54. Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.

Steve Yzerman

#55. Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

Thomas Piketty

#56. But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

Jonny Greenwood

#57. Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

Frank Carlucci

#58. I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.

Robin Williams

#59. You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Charlie Munger

#60. It's an interesting opportunity to do a long-form character and really have the time to find the nuance over an extended period of time. You can really dig deep.

Michelle Monaghan

#61. You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

John Wooden

#62. If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period.

Bill Bryson

#63. Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

Richard Chamberlain

#64. Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Bruce Springsteen

#65. I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

Jim Lovell

#66. You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.

Yves Behar

#67. We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

Warren Stephens

#68. I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

Thomas Gibson

#69. If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal.

Frederick Lenz

#70. There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

Marion Nestle

#71. We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

Jim Leyland

#72. There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

Alanis Morissette

#73. In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

Warren Stephens

#74. Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

Frederick Lenz

#75. My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.

Donna Tartt

#76. I only have eight jokes, but I can do 'em over a two-hour period of time.

Ron Shock

#77. It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.

Asa Don Brown

#78. A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

John P. Kotter

#79. The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

Chris Hughes

#80. What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.

Robert Gottlieb

#81. Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

#82. The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

Frederick Lenz

#83. The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

Harold H. Greene

#84. People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

Pat Benatar

#85. You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time ...
the habit takes over.

Zig Ziglar

#86. The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

Jason Segel

#87. I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

Dan Marino

#88. The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

Louis Menand

#89. All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.

Harvey MacKay

#90. Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

George Carlin

#91. If the idea of death during this period had, as we have seen, cast a gloom over love, the memory of love had for a long time now helped me not to be afraid of death. For I understood that dying was not something new but quite the reverse, that since my childhood I had already died a number of times.

Marcel Proust

#92. The marketing mix consists of the types and amounts of controllable marketing-decision variables that a company uses over a particular time period. Commonly referred to as the "four Ps," these variables are:

John G. Wensveen

#93. My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

Dave Barry

#94. I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

Rachael Taylor

#95. The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

Chris Ofili

#96. If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Lou Brock

#97. The energy problems that we face today were built up over a long period of time and are not going to be solved overnight.

Dana Perino

#98. Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney J. Harris

#99. Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.

Raymond Burr

#100. Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

Bill Buckner

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