Quotes About Patience

Forgive me, Lord, for being sharp to a man who sought only to assist me. I ask for your help in being patient with those who believe women helpless.

He had come to visit every day, even though she refused to see him at first, so that he wouldn't be absent when she did want to see him.

To Stephen Hawking and all others younger than myself I say, "Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

Based on our experience with human minds, it takes at least twenty years of steady effort to produce a useful person, and I see no reason that teaching an artificial being would go any faster.

There are no shortcuts. If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task... experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Guide me toward the proper course of action, Lord. I recognize that my desire to seek answers, while necessary in scientific endeavors, is not always welcome outside of it. Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

Sometimes it's good to wait. The anticipation makes it more fun when you get there.

She'd had little patience with darkness, and her heart held only a measure of shadow. I touched the warm dust of those colors, her tools, and left there with light on the tips of my fingers.

Te sientes así; con ganas de dejar que tus neumáticos se desinflen, de dejar a los ratones construír un nido en tu silenciador, como si fuera no más que un camión en la maleza, cacareando con pollos o pegajoso con miel o sosteniendo a un frágil anciano en tu regazo mientras contempla el camino, esperando a alguien para saludarlo.

The patience of the spider's web is not disturbed by dew.

Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it.

Proverbs 18:13 reminds us that "He who answers before listening—that is his folly and his shame.

Some people think listening is what you do between opportunities to say something. During listening times they don't listen at all. They are deciding what to say. Don't be such a parent. The Proverbs remind you that the fool does not delight in understanding, but in airing his own opinion (Proverbs 18:2).

You should teach that a soft answer turns away wrath.

Success is quest that will take me a life time to fulfill but it is worth the wait...

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

Talking to my dad is like talking to a wall!!;)

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I've got no attention span.

My attention span is very short.

College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.

I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.