Quotes About Patience

A lot of professions assume that you're going to take eight to ten years just to achieve the minimum level of competence necessary to start to practice. That's been a good grounding force when doing projects, because a lot of things go wrong here and there, but if you just assume that anything worthwhile is going to take five to ten years, they don't feel as severe.

can think, I can wait, I can fast.

Take time to stop and smell the roses, or—in this case—to count the pea pods.

La frustración es una cuestión de expectativas.»

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want." Brandon Stanton

3—When in doubt, starve it of oxygen.

It's not giving up to put your current path on indefinite pause.

La analogía que yo uso es, si sales a cenar fuera, te llevará un par de horas.

if we're serious all the time, we'll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done.

Two Words for Conflict Resolution "[My mentor's] life advice to me, when I'm going into a conflict or a difficult situation with my parents or an argument with Neil [Gaiman, her husband] is, 'Say less.' That's it. Just say less.

The antithesis of mastery is the pursuit of quick fixes.

Arnold was able to use his biggest "flaws" as his biggest assets, in part because he could bide his time and didn't have to rush to make rent.

Most likely, the problem won't be around in a year, but my reputation of how I dealt with it will.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. —MOHANDAS GANDHI

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks.

I'm there to learn. I'm not there to win; I'm there to learn, because then I'll win, eventually. . . .

What's the Rush? Can You "Retire" and Come Back?

We waste our time with short-term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz.

my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation.

You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

If you want to be a stud later, you have to be a pud now.