Quotes About Patience

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

When I land in a new country, I'm a tourist. I can't become a local in one day.

It used to be considered an art form to win a tournament without having to shove all your chips in the middle.

I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

The best tournament players actually try to avoid risky plays altogether. They prefer to wait for their opponents to make the risky moves. They'll wait patiently until they catch a strong hand. When they do, they'll take down their overly aggressive foes.

I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

It's very, very difficult to win golf tournaments.

I just had to get on the golf course and play holes whether it was practice or tournaments. Just keep playing. There's nothing else you can do.

Playing only when you have a strong hand, also known as being a slave to the cards, is simply not the way to win tournaments.

You can't really force four tournaments a year.

There can be tournaments that can be elusive no matter how well you play in them, but there's no point in thinking, 'Well, it's just not to be' until it's done and dusted.

You cannot be on leaderboards at big tournaments all the time and have things go your way all the time.

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

I'm a pretty low-stress guy. I take what the golf course gives me. Some days, when I'm in full control, I'm able to fire at pins with 5-irons. Other days, I'm looking more toward the middle of the green.

While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

I'm not going to throw in the towel a moment earlier than I think I have to.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.