Quotes About Patience

Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

When things get stressful and crazy and you think to yourself, 'When will this get easier?' it won't, because that's what a career feels like.

I've got a great support system around me, helping me through the adversity, whether it's us having a stretch of games where we're losing or if I'm not playing as good as I want. I just try to stay focused and keep my head down and don't look up until it's over.

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

I've had a very good stretch with startup investing, and I think it's very important to know when to hold your chips.

I had first-hand experience watching my father's health decline over the stretch of 13 years.

Any time you go through a stretch where you don't hit a homer for a while, it's just natural to start to think about it.

When I was on 'The Walking Dead,' I was working with some great actors, but I wasn't working very much. It wasn't stretching me very much.

The best part of gameday is when kickoff finally happens. The worst part is going through all warmups and stretching and waiting and waiting for the game.

There will be good times, and there will be bad, but one has to, to the extent possible, take things in one's stride.

Young quarterbacks usually experience bumps in the road. I'll take them in stride.

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

It took a lot of time to find my stride, and it was really humbling.

So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.

I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

I don't need to be going out reverse-sweeping for six and four straightaway. Singles can be just as important as boundaries, rotating the strike and not letting the bowlers settle.

While bringing up my kids I had to strike a balance between being strict and being able to maintain my cool.

I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.

If I'm ready to hit early, if I get fooled, then whatever. I've still got two more strikes.

I was a third string guy for a couple of years.

I was getting bored and, I think, being a real pest. I remember Brando coming and sitting on the bed and cutting out the most exquisite paper fish, with detailed scales and fins. Then he took a hotel pen and a piece of string and made a fishing pole.