Quotes About Impatience

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Time is getting on.... Yes, bad luck to it. It always gallops when you want it to walk, and walks when you want it to gallop, like an ill-trained horse.

I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

It is the height of stupidity to believe that in the course of your short life, your few decades of consciousness, you can somehow rewire the configurations of your brain through technology and wishful thinking, overcoming the effect of six million years of development. To go against the grain might bring temporary distraction, but time will mercilessly expose your weakness and impatience.

Understand: the greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hurry up the process, express something, and make a splash.

Impatience, on the other hand, only makes you look weak. It is a principal impediment to power.

I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading.

I thought you were dead," Bera breathed. Cadsuane sniffed irritably. "I am growing tired of hearing that. The next imbecile I hear it from is going to yelp for a week.

Also, I was beginning to tire of waiting for the lightning. If it was going to strike, let it strike.

One might have thought that the years would also have taught her patience, but it had done the opposite. The older she grew, the less inclined she was to wait, for she knew she didn't have many years left. Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

He could almost hear the growling chuckles stifled in their throats while they waited for him.

Run through those time measurements again, Aahz grumbled. In seconds, minutes, hours.... Minutes! We've got a few minutes.

wanted to come right out of my chair at the witness table and scream, You guys have been in business for over two hundred years and can't pass routine legislation. How can you be so impatient with a bunch of parliamentarians who've been at it a year after four thousand years of dictatorship?

grew increasingly impatient and angry as I compared their selflessness and sacrifice with the self-promotion and selfishness of power-hungry politicians and others—in Baghdad, Kabul, and Washington.

Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of the amount of time the job will take.

He's been waiting for me to get fed up?

Forty-five minutes went by

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.

Anyway, she thought, impatiently, if I wanted him I think I'd find some way of hurrying him up. Ludovic SPEED! Was there ever such a misfit of a name? Such a name for such a man is a delusion and a snare.

If there is anything coming it may as well come soon and be done with, for with all these rags to dye before supper I have no time to waste in flirting

I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.

He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious. Just what I wanted to hear. So how are you getting here? My private jet. Of course, he had a private jet. When can you be here? I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower. I prefer ma petite to flower.