Quotes About Patience

I like to take my time when I'm designing and constructing outfits.

I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.

It's amazing how being a dad changes your outlook on life.

You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.

Any captain will take some time to settle down. Nobody is an outstanding leader straightaway.

Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

Imagine you're in the oven, baking. Some of us know and accept our sexuality right away and some need more time to cook. I should know - I baked for 33 years.

It's just like any athlete, we all want a new contract. But I'm not going to stress over it. It's not the end of the world if I don't get it. If I get it, that's good.

If I don't like how I have sang something I will just go over and over it, but I need to give myself some credit.

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

It's annoying to be on the bench - it's truly annoying - but it's a test you have to overcome, and that's how you progress. It's difficult because all you want is to be able to help the team, and when you're on the bench, you can't.

A lot of people think that if something doesn't happen right away with women or with a particular minority, they are overlooked and they're not important and that is so much not the case.

Sometimes I wanted to be aggressive. I felt like if I wasn't getting shots up or if I wasn't being overly aggressive on defense then I wasn't playing good. I finally realized just to slow down and just let the game come to you.

I don't really think reviewing music is something you're going to get famous doing overnight.

People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.

I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

You don't just become a success overnight.

No one's an overnight sensation unless you're Batman.

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

I think the best things are the ones that happen organically and take a while because nothing really happens overnight if you think about it.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.