It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.
Chris Lee, "Margot Robbie’s careful ‘overnight sensation’ plan” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-margot-robbie-wolf-of-wall-street-20140111-story.html, Los Angeles Times, (1/11/2014)
As quoted in "Rick Astley: The pop idol returns" in The Independent (13 October 2005)
“Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.”
February, 1932<!-- p. 51 -->
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
“Better Counsel comes overnight.”
Besserer Rat kommt über Nacht.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia Galotti (1772), Act IV, scene III http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7mlgl10.txt
Misattributed
“Better counsel comes overnight.”
Besserer Rat kommt über Nacht.
Emilia Galotti (1772), Act IV, scene III
[Your life is your message: Finding harmony with yourself, others, and the earth, Easwaran, Eknath, w:Eknath Easwaran, 1997, Hyperion, New York, 0786882662, http://books.google.com/books?id=xKlCo3suzTkC&pg=PA42&dq=Patience+can%27t+be+acquired+overnight.+It+is+just+like+building+up+a+muscle.+Every+day+you+need+to+work+on+it+inauthor:eknath+inauthor:easwaran&hl=en&ei=9UCVTqyUKuKsiAKB1oy6CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Patience%20can%27t%20be%20acquired%20overnight.%20It%20is%20just%20like%20building%20up%20a%20muscle.%20Every%20day%20you%20need%20to%20work%20on%20it%20inauthor%3Aeknath%20inauthor%3Aeaswaran&f=false] (p. 42) (work originally published 1992)
Quote from Gauguin's unfinished essay 'Notes Synthetiques', published in the July / September 1910 issue of ' Vers et Prose' XXII, pp. 51-55, as cited in: Shannon N. Pritchard, Gino Severini and the symbolist aesthetics of his futurist dance imagery, 1910-1915 https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/pritchard_shannon_n_200305_ma.pdf Diss. uga, 2003, p. 23
Gauguin's essay 'Notes Synthetiques' was written in Pont -Aven in 1888 and left incomplete. His essay was first published in 'Vers et Prose' XXII
1890s - 1910s
“It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.”
Quoted in James Nicholas, A Book of Wisdom and Delight: How to Fall in Love With Life (2008) p. 162.
