Quotes About Patience

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

It's not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.

It's easy to get bogged down in all the negativity that when you see people smile and pat you on the back and say, 'We're going to get through this,' it means a lot.

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

I get tetchy with myself when I forget. I also get tetchy when directors ask you for take after take after take after take for no apparent reason. I've heard Maggie Smith gets tetchy for the same reason.

You have to take the rough with the smooth - that's what ski-jumping is all about. You always expect the worst.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

When you play this game long enough, everything is not going to be smooth sailing.

Things don't always go smoothly.

I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. Then you rushed, and hopefully, if you're going to the kitchen for a snack, you'll be back before so you don't miss a line. If your sister sneezed or was talking over a line, there was no way of knowing what that line was or what the joke was.

Sometimes when you've only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.

I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

There's a lot of games played, a lot of snaps played over the long haul.

Some people think a series like 'Mayberry' is a snap, but nothing in this world is a snap, unless you want it to be.

Mental illness is just like any other injury - you just don't see it but it's the same in the sense that things don't just heal overnight, or with the snap of a finger.

I was still playing for Gravesend at 18 and it seemed that every other kid had been snapped up except me.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.