Quotes About Patience

A painting is never finished. You just stop working on it." This idea will be familiar to anyone who has worked on software.

If you would experience a landscape, you must go alone into it and sit down somewhere quietly and wait for it to come in its own good time to you.

the materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand . . . . Such a birdy method may at first seem absurd to the forward-thinking nest maker, but soon it will be found that the pleasures of the project are not derived from efficiency.

is waiting, the audience is secretly aware that

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light That shines on me Shine on till tomorrow, Let It Be...

What should you do? Become an investor with a time horizon greater than one year (the emphasis is on "greater"). Give your investments time to grow.

Sometimes we achieve the impossible sooner than we expect. Knowing that can stiffen our resolve. But it can also tempt us to place too much emphasis on outcomes; it can cause us to become unduly impatient, brittle, setback easily breaking our will. A deeper, more farseeing hope, by contrast, combines realism with resilience, acknowledging terror and suffering without giving in to them.

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.

She wanted to ask, How long? A year? Less more? Any time? But she had lived long enough to know that you did not ask questions to which there were no answers and which you didn't want answered.

But it isn't the best we should remember,' she said, and shocked herself by speaking aloud, and clutched the folds and mother-of-pearl buttons in that habitual gesture. We must remember the worst because the worst is the lives we lead, the best is only our history, and between our history and our lives there is this vast dark plain where the rapt and patient shepherds drive their invisible flocks in expectation of God's forgiveness. *

time, stability and loyalty, which are not things usually to be reaped without first being sown. Perhaps

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

There are few things more abrasive to the human spirit, even in Patagonia, than someone standing behind you chomping and sucking ice cubes.

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere if you're not in a hurry.

Strollers see more, and are more polite, than drivers.

I had done enough traveling to know that half of travel was delay or nuisance

Reasoning that I would rather take a detour for hours on a bad road than sit in my car in a traffic jam, I thanked him and drove away, past the parked cars and the children and the protesting teachers, through the bowl of a green valley and into the hills that looked rockier and drier in the distance.

My idea was that I would have lunch in Mexicali and hurry back to Calexico, but this line of people was daunting, moving so slowly that I decided to skip lunch and just look.

calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month.

the subject of boredom.

If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life—the homebound writer's irritants. Being kept waiting is the human condition.