Quotes About Patience

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

We just want to grow at a reasonable pace. Supreme hasn't changed for 20 years, and that feels very simple to me.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

I will never say never. If it is God's plan, it will surely happen.

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

I've never had a ground-breaking hit that changed the deal. It's always been slowly but surely for me, and I've never had a moment of sheer panic when I thought I was never going to work again. So I can't really complain.

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

Anything that's good and has a certain amount of quality, slowly but surely, it will be accepted.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'

A lot of times I'll see guys who are nowhere near the level of the board they're riding. They might love surfing and love how it looks, but you really have to work your way up. It takes eating a little humble pie at first, and stepping back to equipment that might be a bit slow, but do it.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

I suck at surfing. I can't pull myself up.

The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

I've had four knee surgeries in my career. I just don't do small injuries. The highs of winning are always balanced out by the lows of being injured and missing games. There was a time when I was out for nearly a year, having already been out for six months with another surgery before that.

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

My microfracture was handled like a routine arthroscopic surgery. They thought it was a 6-to-8 week deal. Now we know, from Amare Stoudemire to Kenyon Martin, that it's a longer deal.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

You have no confidence when you come out of surgery because you can't really do anything. You're like, 'Man, am I ever going to heal?'

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.