Quotes About Patience

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

Hope is a slow business.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Don't take forever to make a decision, but don't make it too fast.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

People are hungry for success without work.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.

Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.