Quotes About Patience

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

I work whenever I'm let.

It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

What will I do when I can no longer dig?

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

Either I'll never get rich from the show but remain intensely proud of the work and stand behind every second of it, or it catches on and I'll make my money down the road.

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.