Quotes About Patience

But I really think wrestling with pure intentions just wrestling to be a better wrestler, eventually you will get there when the time is right.

I know plenty of wrestlers who are 15-0 and going nowhere.

You can't just learn wrestling overnight.

I started wrestling when I was 35, but my career didn't take off until I was 40.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

'Writer's block' sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

As an actor, I give 60 days to act in a film, but the writer takes nearly two to three years to create a story.

I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.

New writers don't throw tantrums, they have time. I can make them work on one song for a week.