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  • Overnight I became a cottage industry. -- Jean Harris
  • Overnight success stories take a long time. -- Steve Jobs
  • Change Won't Happen Immediately, as Nigeria's Problems Didn't Start Overnight -- Mo Abudu
  • Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. -- Ernie J Zelinski
  • Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. -- Clint Eastwood
  • Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero. -- Monica Lewinsky
  • Overnight success just doesn't happen. You've got to put your time in. You're up and down - all of a sudden, it just clicks -- Anthony Calvillo
  • Clinton's pet Labrador, Buddy, is getting neutered. The dog will never have sex again. Overnight, they've turned Buddy from a Democrat into a Republican. -- Jay Leno
  • The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission. -- Rose George
  • I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently. -- Rick Astley
  • Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down. -- Bernard Malamud
  • Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down. -- Bernard Malamud
  • He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool. -- Sherry Thomas
  • I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight. -- Gwen Stefani
  • Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook. -- Howard Schultz
  • It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell. -- Mark Twain
  • It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. -- Eddie Cantor
  • Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years. -- Monty Hall
  • You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. -- Jim Rohn
  • It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight. -- Chanel Iman
  • In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. -- James Dyson
  • One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent. -- Sandra Cisneros
  • You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight. -- Patrice Motsepe
  • My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. -- Adrien Brody
  • Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money. -- Robert Foster Bennett
  • Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. -- Jim Rohn
  • No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced. -- Jack Canfield
  • I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. -- John Grisham
  • People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times. -- Rohit Sharma
  • I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime. -- Troy Polamalu
  • Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. -- Shania Twain
  • The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. -- Barack Obama
  • After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' -- Anna Quindlen
  • Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart. -- Sue Monk Kidd
  • A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. -- Stephen Covey
  • I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success. -- Rick Renzi
  • Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle. -- Jackee Harry
  • I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works. -- Kate Morton
  • I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake. -- Hoda Kotb
  • Chinese people age overnight. -- Karl Pilkington
  • Better Counsel comes overnight. -- Doris Lessing
  • I was an overnight sensation. -- Elvis Presley
  • Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days. -- Brian Chesky
  • Anger should never be an overnight guest. -- Neal A. Maxwell
  • Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight. -- The Beatles
  • I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007. -- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight. -- Heather Mills
  • It takes years to make an overnight success. -- Eddie Cantor
  • An overnight success is ten years in the making. -- Tom Clancy
  • I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success. -- Ben Lewin
  • It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. -- Eddie Cantor
  • Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe. -- William Zinsser
  • Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes. -- Jack Canfield
  • George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
  • We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight. -- Christina Aguilera
  • Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes. -- Kevin Ashton
  • The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight. -- W. Averell Harriman
  • It generally takes about 10 years to become an overnight sensation. -- Robin Sharma
  • The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent. -- Carol Haney
  • Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not. -- Jason Calacanis
  • Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight. -- Peter Woo
  • Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time. -- David
  • In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight. -- Oleg Cassini
  • ...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight. -- Louis Navellier
  • ... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up -- Mary E. Pearson
  • While success has hardly come overnight for me, it always comes. -- Edwina Findley
  • It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more. -- Seth Godin
  • Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known. -- Terry Gilliam
  • If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off. -- David Attenborough
  • I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight. -- Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. -- Mother Teresa
  • I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. -- Sting
  • Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight. -- Paul Krugman
  • Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success. -- Prince
  • I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight -- James Levine
  • The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over. -- Dawn Ostroff
  • Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success. -- Kevin Hart
  • You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success. -- Patrick Collison
  • Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste. -- Wes Smith
  • Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work. -- Margot Robbie
  • We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight. -- Romola Garai
  • One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't. -- Ken Thompson
  • It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight. -- Neil Oliver
  • I kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud. -- Rose McGowan
  • If you destroy a firm, you can't pull it out of bankruptcy overnight. -- Joseph Stiglitz
  • Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. -- George Carlin
  • Conscience unlike a beard does not grow overnight. You have it or you don't. -- Faisal Khosa
  • I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight -- Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT. -- Dave Barry
  • I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. -- Anais Nin
  • Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back. -- Erin Andrews
  • Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war. -- Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
  • I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night. -- Ray Kroc
  • Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before. -- Nicolas Chamfort
  • However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning. -- John Lubbock
  • There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success. -- Richard Branson
  • Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. -- Gail Godwin
  • There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there. -- Cindy Margolis
  • Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish. -- William Zinsser
  • Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. -- Biz Stone
  • I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. -- Mary Karr
  • Change doesn't happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction. -- Paula Deen
  • Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight. -- Lois Ehlert
  • Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. -- Lisa Morton
  • No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight. -- Madeleine Albright
  • I slather Egyptian Magic cream all over my face on overnight flights to keep my skin hydrated. -- Kate Hudson
  • I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. -- Jessica Savitch
  • People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success. -- James Daly
  • We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems. -- Kelly Jones
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