Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring
“Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.”
“Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.”
When Pausch spoke of "when you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gaveup." he was quoting Jon Snoddy http://www.snoddy.net/
The Last Lecture (2007)
Context: Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. He said, when you are pissed off at somebody, and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time — and they'll almost always impress you. And that really stuck with me. I think he's absolutely right on that one.
“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
Rand al'Thor
(15 September 1992)
“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”
“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.
“Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.”
No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)
Book I, Ch. 20
Essais (1595), Book I
