Take Your Time Quotes

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn’t go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven’t learned with another director or you haven’t worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you’re doing.

In the hardware world, you’ve got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it’s all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don’t have time to make things right, which is painful ’cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.

Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

Take your time. There’s no rush to be good or renowned.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

Cooking is not about convenience and it’s not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

You may still be here tomorrow…but your dreams may not.

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.