Quotes About Patience

The Ballon d'Or? In the end, I dedicate myself, and if it arrives, it will arrive.

When you play well, and you don't win, in the end, you get tired. You've lost something. You've lost time.

People seem to expect when that happens, for players to be brought in that are so much better than the ones that have left. In the end they might be better but in the beginning they might be worse. Because they all have to gel and get to know each other and get to know you.

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

It's hard, but I try not to think of happiness as either pending or in the past.

My career has been an inch at a time.

In 2010 I had to learn to walk again when I had my legs made the same length, after living with one leg two inches longer than the other until the age of 51.

As anyone who has started a company knows, it's pretty common not to see any income for months.

The perspective is that one week out of the year does not a career make nor enough income make.

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.

As any mother knows, we just want our babies to feel better quickly, and we all do whatever we have to do to help them - no matter how much it inconveniences us or hurts our backs!

Even during 'Udta Punjab,' I didn't say much until the film was out. I feel it's incorrect to talk about a film until everything falls into place.

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

For five years I worked independently waiting for the right opportunity to present itself.

Seek not the best, the best is better hidden.

Imparerai presto che quando non si è in azione il partigiano è il mestiere più noioso al mondo.

Eppure la lentezza -a differenza dell'ozio, che richiede doti agonistiche- ha ancora il suo fascino.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.