Quotes About Patience

The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?

I have to work at my own speed.

If I wanted to learn how to race a speed car, I'm not going to go and race with Formula One drivers. I'm going to go to a beginner's class.

If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.

Americans are too speedy.

A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.

I don't need to run in and bowl 90mph every spell to get wickets.

I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'

In football, you can't always have it your own way. You can't always have the good times. You are going to have bad spells and periods when you are not playing well. It is something I have to deal with. I have learnt to deal with it.

In an 82-game season, you're going to have some dry spells where goals are harder to come by, and other times they're just going to come in bundles.

No one will bowl at 90mph all day every day. There will be spells when you have to bowl within yourself.

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

Film was very expensive, so you couldn't waste a single frame. This meant spending time with the subject, getting to know them and finally, getting that one great picture.

I spent five years after '3 Idiots' making my next film. I didn't see a single penny in those five years.

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

I didn't want to release a song like 'Spice Girl' right after 'Caroline' because I didn't want another 'hit' kind of song.

I feel like a hit will come whenever it does, but I don't want to sit in a studio trying to figure out the magic formula and mixing spices and trying to come up with the perfect song.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.