Quotes About Patience

Amos liked to say that if you are asked to do anything—go to a party, give a speech, lift a finger—you should never answer right away, even if you are sure that you want to do it. Wait a day, Amos said, and you'll be amazed how many of those invitations you would have accepted yesterday you'll refuse after you have had a day to think it over.

Clark's new enterprises: endure the humiliation of not fully understanding your job, and you might never need to work again.

working on this book has been those long

It's sort of like the flood's about to happen and you're Noah. You're on the ark. Yeah, you're okay. But you are not happy looking out at the flood. That's not a happy moment for Noah.

Value investors like Graham and Dodd are so focused on being the last one laughing that they miss a lot of the laughs in between.

Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

Always waiting, waiting to go up to the front line, waiting in the trenches with the whizzbags and shells bursting all around you, waiting for the whistle to send you out over the top and across No-Man's-Land, waiting for the bullet that had name on it.

Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

Life is not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

I am a man who fasts until I see what I want.

Her face became tougher and leaner, the face Cara-vaggio would meet later. She was thin, mostly from tiredness. She was always hungry and found it a furious exhaustion to feed a patient who couldn't eat or didn't want to, watching the bread crumble away, the soup cool, which she desired to swallow fast. She wanted nothing exotic, just bread, meat.

Quite early on I had discovered the overlooked space open to those of us with a silent life. I didn't argue with the policeman who said I couldn't cycle over a certain bridge or through a specific gate in the fort—I just stood there, still, until I was invisible, and then I went through. Like a cricket. Like a hidden cup of water.

Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, 'Faya!' That was a good day.

Solo quiero que sepas que aún no te echo de menos. —Ya llegará.

Sólo quiero que sepas que aún no te echo de menos. —Ya llegará.

The sun comes every day. Save the string. I put it in lines across the room. I watched him creep his body though the grilled windows. When the sun touches the first string wham it is 10 o'clock. It is 2 o'clock when he touches the second. When the shadow of the first string is under the second string it is 4 o'clock. When it reaches the door it will soon be dark.

As I've heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it's not YOUR time.

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

The garden is an unhappy place for the perfectionist. Too much stands beyond our control here, and the only thing we can absolutely count on is eventual catastrophe.

One of the last nights we were together, he said, 'Honey, don't push me. I'm finding my way.'" At the same time, he sought to comfort her. "This is simply the wheel of life," she recalls him saying. "'You feel like you're being ground down by it now, but the wheel is going to turn and you'll be on top again.

Nutrition science, which after all only got started less than two hundred years ago, is today approximately where surgery was in the year 1650—very promising, and very interesting to watch, but are you ready to let them operate on you? I think I'll wait awhile.