Years It Takes Quotes

#1. Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

Matthieu Ricard

#2. Crying. Expelling grief from the body in the form of salt water. What's its purpose? How did it evolve, and why are humans the only creatures on Earth that do it? Nora wonders how many years it takes to dry up that messy urge.

Isaac Marion

#3. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

George Stephanopoulos

#4. The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just go crazy. Then, over the years - it takes years to write these things, to make these things come to pass - there are many, many, many drafts. For Maleficent, there were at least 15.

Linda Woolverton

#5. Number of years it takes to pay off an $8,000 18% credit card balance with minimal monthly payments: 54 years

Anonymous

#6. The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.

Dana Spiotta

#7. Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

Peter Blair Henry

#8. I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

Kevin Eubanks

#9. The three years it takes to acquire 'the knowledge' and the subsequent years of navigating London's complex streets give cabbies a 30% larger hippocampus than the average London resident.

James Tagg

#10. I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

Steven Spielberg

#11. In marriage, those who persevere are rewarded with the most precious thing this earth has to offer: Marital love
a partnership that conquers the years. It takes time, but those who persevere are rewarded with, falling in love with their spouse.
pg v

Michael Ben Zehabe

#12. Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.

David Henry Hwang

#13. The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

Steve Jobs

#14. Relationships are like a book,
It takes few seconds to burn,
But
It takes years to write,
So write it carefully
And
Never let it burn

Aditya Nighot

#15. It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

T. S. Eliot

#16. It takes at least ten years for a child to learn to coordinate lips, tongue, mouth, and breath with the exacting fine motor control that adults use when they talk.

Christine Kenneally

#17. I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.

Philip Schultz

#18. A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

Harvey Fierstein

#19. My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.

Mike Mignola

#20. The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

Fiona Apple

#21. I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

Ringo Starr

#22. It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.

Nicole Scherzinger

#23. But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken.

Lemony Snicket

#24. I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.

T.C. Boyle

#25. Love takes just a moment, it is the ego that takes days, months and years.

Himanshu Chhabra

#26. Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

#27. I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#28. Your credit score takes into account years of information in most cases. It's not going to improve in a day. But it may improve more quickly than you think. Generally, the last 24 months carry the most weight, so if you can keep clean for that long, you'll see a boost.

Jean Chatzky

#29. Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.

Jaime Pressly

#30. Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

Chuck Klosterman

#31. It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

Ben Robertson

#32. Consider carbon, for example. The lifetime of carbon in the combined atmosphere-ocean-biosphere, the time it takes on average before the typical carbon atom is transferred to the sediment, is less than 200,000 years.

Michael B McElroy

#33. It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

Sally Ride

#34. Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love
and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

Umberto Eco

#36. How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

Charles Baudelaire

#37. His lips brushed my forehead. "Look at me." I sighed and opened my eyes. His fingers traced my jawline. "Just be with me. That's all. I don't have an agenda or a time frame. If it takes fifty years to break down that wall, I'll be there." - Aren from Hunter's Moon

Lisa Kessler

#38. I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#39. I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

Robert Englund

#40. In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.

Julia Cameron

#41. I was an emotional manipulator of fighters ... You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

Mike Tyson

#42. I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

Matt Gonzalez

#43. The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#44. I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Salman Rushdie

#45. If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Mohsin Hamid

#46. It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Ziggy Marley

#47. I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

Eric Dickerson

#48. It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.

Gillian Armstrong

#49. A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

Fernand Point

#50. I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out the first draft very quickly. I can do it in five to six weeks. Then, it takes a year of rewriting it and rewriting it.

Eran Creevy

#51. I personally think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two and a half years, that's doable. Certainly, the first people who go there, that's going to be a big motivator, being first getting to Mars.

Scott Kelly

#52. Unfortunately, it's not that it's not impossible for us to develop Final Fantasy 7 for mobile. It's that currently, space will be an issue. Phones won't be able to contain the space it takes. It's over a gigabyte. People are probably going to have to wait a few years.

Takashi Tokita

#53. Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

James Altucher

#54. I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

Christopher Bollen

#55. My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Larry Niven

#56. Sam Walton said, 'It takes 20 years to be an overnight success.

Allan Branch

#57. It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#58. One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

Earl Nightingale

#59. First we pre-visualized it so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.

Ang Lee

#60. Fulfilling your vision for the best year of your life requires thought and introspection. It is not much different than planning an awesome vacation. It takes time, discussion, planning, decision making, and an array of other skills.

Debbie Ford

#61. It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation.

Robin Sharma

#62. It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

Nina George

#63. It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.

Walter Kirn

#64. You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

Donna Tartt

#65. As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

Sania Mirza

#66. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

#67. He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#68. Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Jane Birkin

#69. With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

Geraldo Rivera

#70. It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.

M.F. Moonzajer

#71. Zarek
shrugged, taking it in stride. "I'm an asshole. I admit it. I've been
going to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo a
few thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo than
me." -ZAREK

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#72. He hadn't hit her in several years, but when you've been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woman.

John Grisham

#73. It takes about 6 hours of practice a day for quite a few years to become a professional juggler. I started when I was 14 and that discipline has helped me immensely as a performer.

Jeff Raz

#74. It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Helen Rowland

#75. School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#76. It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

#77. It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

Joseph Fiennes

#78. There is a power within and without. If you ask, it answers. It's just a matter of being calm and wise and listening. It takes years.

John Altman

#79. It takes many years to lay the solid foundation for final success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted ... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

M. Night Shyamalan

#81. We have a very structured process for taking in refugees. It takes almost two years to transition from another country into the United States through the refugee process.

James Lankford

#82. If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.
And the journey starts NOW.

Jasper Fforde

#83. It can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

Marc Maron

#84. Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

Ben Huh

#85. Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

Melina Marchetta

#86. Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.

Diane Helbig

#87. It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

Amy Poehler

#88. There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

George A. Romero

#89. It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

Robert Sheckley

#90. Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.

Anthony Bourdain

#91. Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years ... or as long as it takes to win.

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#92. I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

Jerry West

#93. I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

Tamara Mellon

#94. I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.

Alistair Brownlee

#95. We're Human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill, today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill, today.

Robert Hamner

#96. Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Robert Teeter

#97. I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is ... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Viswanathan Anand

#98. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But ... it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction ... Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.

John Fuller

#99. Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

Daphne Guinness

#100. 5 Learning to dance en pointe is tough. It takes years and years to build up the strength, years of discipline and exercise. Even

Cathy Cassidy