Quotes About Patience

I would love to win a slam by the end of my career, and I would love to achieve other things. It's just that I am not a patient guy. When I want something, I try to get it as quickly as I can.

I would never slam my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time.

I never start anything 'I want to be No. 1. I want to win Grand Slam.' For me, no. It's always step by step. The only thing I want to do, it's to push the limit.

I don't put myself under huge pressure because if I don't play well at one grand slam, I know there's another one just a couple of months away.

I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some champagne. It's like if someone's writing a novel: You write a series of drafts.

I was getting, at like 18, 'Why haven't you won a Grand Slam yet?'

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal.

I realize that dinner time, bath time, and bed time is 'roll your sleeves up, we can do this.' Just get one foot in front of the other, it's gonna be okay.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish - just in a slightly bigger pond.

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'