Quotes About Patience

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

This game is very humbling and you have to take it one pitch at a time, one day at a time and compete.

The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.

I can only show these people what I'm capable of when God allows me to be on the pitch.

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

Actors are used to staring at the walls waiting for the phone to ring. It's not unchartered territory for us.

I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'

Christoph Waltz, you know, blew up in Hollywood at a very old age. He won two Oscars back-to-back so I thought, 'You know what? Even if it happens when I'm 50, that's fine.' You know, I'll always keep going, always keep trying.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.

You never wanna rise to the top too fast in anything.

To a degree... you wanna make your way in the industry, so you kind of get what you're given at first.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

For me, I try not to set any goals or try and see what's gonna happen, because I don't wanna be let down or disappointed that something didn't happen the way I thought it was gonna happen.