Quotes About Impatience

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!

I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

As the term of my relief from this place [Washington, D.C.] approaches, it's drudgery becomes more nauseating and intolerable, and my impatience to be with you at Monticello increases daily.

We think too many thoughts at once, most of them the same thoughts we had yesterday and the day before. We are impatient with life, and anxious.

A solitary man in his bed is like a poor bed-red lazar lying by the highway-side unto whose displayed wounds and sores a number of stinging flies do swarm for pastance and beverage. His naked wounds are his inward heart-griping woes, the wasps and flies his idle wandering thoughts; who to that secret smarting pain he hath already do add a further sting of impatience and new-lance his sleeping griefs and vexations.

Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or hatred, forces to live behind prison bars.

It's about goddamn time! I've been sending you telepathic messages for ten minutes!

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

It is not uncommon for fighters' camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with one's life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing.

the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.

I wait and wait, as though something is going to happen, as though someone has promised to come, as though the world could show me something new...

I've had enough adventures, said Noxon, to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

It's bad enough sitting in a car, never mind driving it.

Well what does it matter,' he muttered when he was out in the corridor. 'Who wants to know the end of a story in advance?

She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.

Impatience, not fear, is the mind-killer.

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