Quotes About Patience

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.

Study first, play afterwards.

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

I've been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn't feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere.

I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

I feel like I have been putting out a consistent body of work, just waiting for that agent, that executive, that assistant to the bigwig to stumble across it.

I had some problems in the past when I made some stupid mistakes and got some stupid cards, but I learned a lot from this, and I know now how to calm myself down.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

That's how I was taught. That's how I was raised, to ignore the stupidity, continue on and do what I need to do.

I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.

Because I talk too fast and I start stuffing up my words, I start mumbling and stuttering. I just have to remember to slow down.

When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.

Im an entirely one-paced runner, but occasionally I try and go into a slightly higher speed and usually pull my dodgy hamstring. So I just potter along with my rather odd bow-legged running style.

Certain styles of play take a bit longer.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Math - it's not my best subject.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Always I try one submission. If it doesn't work, the second one works.