delayed success Quotes

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I think the most difficult part is being patient for good work to come. Sometimes, you feel like giving up if things don't materialise in a short period of time.

I've kind of done everything late.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Quite frequently, he who goes too fast gets there too late - or not at all.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.

Success has taken its own sweet time to reach me.

I think one thing that makes me delay projects more than other people is, I see this silver lining in a turn-down. Maybe if I just wrote a script and then pounded my head against all the doors, I would be shooting more films.

I published so many books, which, for years, didn't get published here in America, at all - and which barely got any attention in England. So it wasn't going to take much to make me feel suddenly famous. So - yeah - after 20 years, I'm an overnight success.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

Impatience never commanded success.

I'm a late bloomer. Even in high school, everyone else was charging ahead, and I didn't come into my own until very late. I feel that's true in cinema, too. I didn't even start 'Metropolitan' until I was 37.

There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.

The more haste, the less speed.

It took me 16 years to get to the WWE. And the reason for that is that I did it - I don't want to call it the responsible way, but I'm going to call it the responsible way. I went to school, I worked multiple jobs, and yeah, I chased my dream.

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.