Quotes About Patience

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.

I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

People have got no attention span these days with music - I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back.

I have a very short attention span.

I am not at all in a rush to make a career that only lasts for a short span of time.

I have a short attention span.

I have kind of a short attention span, so if it doesn't come really quick then I set it down, and hopefully come back to it another time.

I've been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It's a slow process, but I'm trying.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

If you want someone, you have to be willing to wait for them and trust that what you have is real and strong enough for them to wait for you. If somebody jumps ship for you, that fact will always haunt you because you'll know they're light on their feet. Spare yourself the paranoia and the pain and walk away until the coast is clear.

As a footballer, there is so much spare time.

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

I can't speak on anybody else's free agencies, how that's going, but for myself, it helps to kind of be patient and let it happen.

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

Listen more than you speak.

I have always maintained that it's not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.