Quotes About Patience

Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow 'Roots,' I was having serious private frustrations with myself.

I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.

When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

You don't have to always win by scoring five or six.

I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.

It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

It took me sixteen years to write.

I think I was probably a 60-year-old man in waiting for most of my life. Even as a child I had something of the man in my sixties about me.

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.

If you are going to be ice skating for three or potentially six months you are probably going to get injured a lot.

Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.

If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'

I am constantly in a need to create irrespective of the medium. When I started out, I did sketch and I continue to do so on paper sometimes. Mainly, I work with acrylic and ink. Honestly, I don't have the patience for oil paint to dry.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

We're all different, so even though someone is getting a skill before you, it doesn't mean that you're not good enough; it just means you have to wait a little bit, and the skill will come when it comes.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Coaching is a very different skill. You need patience, you need a lot of organisation. I don't have any.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.