Quotes About Patience

I might just paddle out to hang out, and if I get a wave, I'd do it, but if I don't, it's still worth it.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

There's a period where you feel very hinky and low about yourself, like, 'That was a lot of time, and there's nothing to show for it.' I've tried to tell myself that if you're going to be a filmmaker, you can't really talk like that about time, because you'll hate yourself or feel very worthless.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

I don't mind sitting behind Tom Brady. That is the GOAT himself.

Tom Brokaw has been criticized for not being patient enough with me. But, in his defense, he is a news purist, and what he does is absolutely right for him. When we were thrown together, there was the matter of an actress coming in to do the news. I was missing the camera, not reading very well - there was a lot of stuff I had to get used to.

Tom Rowlands does not rush a record.

I want to be like Tom Brady and Drew Brees and that's something that doesn't happen overnight. Tom didn't play at first; Aaron Rodgers didn't play at first.

I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.

I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.

Strawberries are like tomatoes for me; I just won't eat them year round. I'll happily wait for them to come into season, then I gorge like a brown bear eating salmon before hibernation.

When you grow tomatoes, you're going to get a lot of tomatoes. So you want to learn how to preserve.

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.