Quotes About Patience

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

It took me five years to make 'Kubo and the Two Strings.'

I ripped off half my hair with a waxing strip, and it didn't grow back for, like, 5 months.

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

Whether you're working on becoming a more patient parent or you're striving to become an elite athlete, building mental strength will help you reach your goals.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it looks like when it's done.

I struggle with arrangements. I take forever doing them. It gets to a point where I've been playing around with things on loops for days. I always paint in broad strokes - very quickly, I'll feel out the larger structure - but it's putting the details in that I find the hardest part.

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

I was getting offers when I was in Bollywood, but was waiting for a strong character.

Mentally strong people don't shy away from change - nor do they expect immediate results.

I had a certain level of patience, but sometimes weathering the storm is a patient process. Every storm don't pass fast. Every storm, it can be passing, but it can be getting stronger and stronger or it could be coming down hard.

Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.

My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

I believe strongly that you just take whatever the gift has given you that day. You dont say, Oh, this is the wrong well, so Im not going to take it! You take what youre given, and hope its from a good place.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

The less you struggle with a problem, the more it's likely to solve itself. The less time you spend frantically running around, the more productive you are likely to be.