Quotes About Patience

It is always better to wait for a good surprise instead of thinking about it.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised.

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.

I don't know if I should plan anything. God's already given me so many surprises.

One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.

My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's amazing how many times three children can say 'Daddy' in just one hour, much less one day.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.' So literally from that moment of deep surrender, that's when you're blessed.

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

Do not despair if the answer is slow in coming. Bethlehem proves the faithfulness of God. He answers our fears with a baby wrapped in rags. They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. This is the promise of God.

after a minute, you continue writing. she screams again. you wonder how long this can go on.

The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.

The woman and the white-haired old man looked at the clock, as if it might tell them something about their situation and what they were supposed to do next.

Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just wanted to do wing-overs and sing the prologue to Pagliacci. I had the fly swatter poised in midair and I was all set. There was a patch of bright sunlight on the corner of the desk and I knew that sooner or later that was where he was going to light. But when he did, I didn't even see him at first. The buzzing stopped and there he was. And then the phone rang.

The next hour was three hours long

The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.

So is he gonna wake up from that nap yet or what?

Kind of smart guesser, ain't you, young man? Can't wait for folks to get their mouth open hardly." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Morrison. This is an important matter to us—" "This here young man don't seem to have no trouble keepin' his mouth in place." "He's married," I said. "He's had practice.