Quotes About Patience

Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

Not everyone gets a reservation in the hot restaurant. You must pay your dues. Like it or not there is a pecking order.

No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more.

Nobody comes back from a serious injury and is the same after a month or even three months. You should play in the reserves; you get your muscle back and regain your match rhythm. Psychologically, you need to build your confidence back up and you hope there are no complications. Even in a settled side, it's hard.

I think persistence and resilience are very important.

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.

Chicago taught me when to talk, taught me when to shut up, taught me when to stay, taught me when to go. And really it all forms to make BJ the Chicago Kid.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

People who don't know that I do comedy think I'm shy, kind of a dud, and I don't have the wherewithal to prove them wrong. It takes me a long time to get to know people.

My kids are used to new siblings coming in, so they're already like, 'When is the next one going to come?' And I'm like, 'Guys, you and the entire world need to stop asking me that!'

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

I don't have much patience with sick people.

It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do?

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.