Quotes About Patience

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.

I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.

For about a year, when we lived at Middlewick, I couldn't really go anywhere. But the children came and went as normal - they just got on with it - and so did great friends. I would pass the time by reading a lot - more than I'd ever have been able to in a normal life.

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

I don't like to look too far ahead normally, I see it season-by-season or game-by-game.

Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull it.

There comes a time when coming off the bench just doesn't cut it anymore, it's not enough time and it's not good enough.

I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

I'm not interested in how long I can hold out, but in how fast I can reach the finishing line.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

I want to be there for the last note of 'Freebird' when that happens.

In live action, sometimes a mood or a feeling can go on for quite a while. Animation is a lot more effort. There are a lot more notes.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

You build a fan base over time, and they will accept you as long as it's good. Nothing matters as long as something's good. If it's bad, nobody will see it.

I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.

Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.