Quotes About Patience

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of if it'll work; it's a matter of when.

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.

There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

Everything works out how it should.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

I'm very good at being out of work.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.