Quotes About Patience

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

There aren't any negative thoughts about my time in Detroit; I just didn't play. Sometimes you have to go through that at different stages. I went through it during a tough period, my first year in the league, but it was a good year for me off the court.

There are moments of high mood, there are moments of low mood, there are moments of injury, there are moments of strength, there are moments of progress, there are moments of stagnation. All we can do is keep on pushing.

Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

God didn't design an elevator for me. It's great because I'm climbing stairs and learning with every step.

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

Premium hands are simply few and far between when large pots are at stake.

I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over.

You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

We can stand in line to buy groceries, we can stand in line to ride at Six flags, and we can stand in line for things that we think are very important.

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.

It's easy to be patient because you have a guy in the room like Eli Manning who comes in every day, one of the first people in the building and one of the last ones to leave and he's been in the league as long as he has. So that's what it takes to continue to get better, and he sets the standard, and I need to reach it.

I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

There were times when I was working three jobs at one time, and I was still auditioning just to make ends meet, and I was hoping that something was going to come through. Especially after you have two degrees, standing solid through the process is sometimes the hardest part because there is no guarantee.