Quotes About Patience

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

Timing has a lot to with art.