Quotes About Patience

Not that Cody replied. In fact, he hadn't acknowledged even receiving any of the texts or e-mails she'd sent in the past hour. She speculated that he was out of cell phone range, busy with something, or simply unresponsive and rude. All three were distinct possibilities. She began to understand why Larry Olson, Cody's former partner, became so frustrated with him.

Hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.

In the words of one high-hope individual, "All the steps involved in getting there are as much fun as actually finishing a project." Consistent with this sentiment, I have found that high-hope people are quite patient with experiencing the course of unfolding events.

Since fortune was dragging its heels, I would lure it out with my hard work.

The most difficult problem is not that of wanting to learn. It is time. With enough time you might learn to listen and to walk. And with enough time I would listen to you, and walk your way without undoing mine. With sufficient time everything will again belong to everybody. We will be able to exist in our life, and at the same time in the life of all persons who were once things, and in the life of things that later are to be persons.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Make haste slowly

Tudo volta. E voltam mais bonitas, mais maduras, voltam quando tem de voltar, voltam quando é pra ser.

I am trying to quit smoking. Me too. But, I'd like something in my hands now. You have something in your hands now. Me? Me.

Querido amor, estou fazendo a minha parte: te esperar. Faça a sua: chegue

As the author Tim Ferriss once wrote: "Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.

To simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it's incredibly valuable.

Thoreau demonstrated similar concern, famously writing in Walden that "we are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Without this patient willingness to reject shiny new pursuits, you'll derail your efforts before you acquire the capital you need.

True missions, it turns out, require two things. First you need career capital, which requires patience. Second, you need to be ceaselessly scanning your always-changing view of the adjacent possible in your field, looking for the next big idea. This requires a dedication to brainstorming and exposure to new ideas. Combined, these two commitments describe a lifestyle, not a series of steps that automatically spit out a mission when completed.

The art of mission, we can conclude, asks us to suppress the most grandiose of our work instincts and instead adopt the patience

Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.

No one ever changed the world, created a new industry, or amassed a fortune due to their fast email response time.

Tim Ferriss once wrote: "Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.

Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you will never find time for the life-changing big things- Tim Ferriss

Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience. We attend to tone & nuance. On the other hand, when we communicate on our digital devices, we learn different habits. As a true digital minimalist, Turkle approaches these issues from a standpoint of smarter use of digital communication tools, not blanket abstention. "My argument is not anti-technology." She writes. "It's pro-conversation.

A well-known journalist recently told me that following a breaking story on Twitter gives him the sense that he's receiving lots of information, but that in his experience, waiting until the next morning to read the article about the story in the Washington Post almost always leaves him more informed.

Overall, Pardis's most important commitment was to patience. She didn't try to force a direction for her working life, but instead built up her career capital and kept her eyes open for the interesting directions she knew this process would uncover.

Glass emphasizes that it takes time to get good at anything, recounting the many years it took him to master radio to the point where he had interesting options. "The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; that's the hardest phase," he says.