Quotes About Patience

Obviously, you want to win a trophy and finish as high up the table as possible. But it's important to focus game-by-game.

Winning a trophy would be a good way to finish a bad season in a positive way. But I'm not obsessed by the fact I have to win a trophy every year - it's a nice thing, but I know it's sometimes impossible.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Never meet trouble half-way.

Keep your head on the ball. You've got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball's going, and they haven't even hit it yet.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

The trouble is, the older you get, it's hard to find time to make a film: it's a year to write, a year to get money, a year to make it, a year to edit. It's four years of your life.

Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

I have been known to catch sixty trout in one day.

Me and my step-dad shared a $500 Chevy Celebrity, a 1983 Dodge Ram truck, and an old Ford Ranger truck - it was a piece of junk. I hated that thing. It fell apart. It didn't always go in reverse. So I drove in a circle or I would just get somebody to sit in the thing and I would push it backward.

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

I'd got hit by a mail truck. Broke my leg in two places. Had a cast on for about six months. I was in the first grade. Second half of first grade.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.

I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

I'm a true believer that you get out of something what you put into it.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.