Quotes About Patience

You need to explain this to me like I'm an idiot," I said. "Because clearly I am.

Nueva regla: La gente que viaja en el tiempo puede tomarse todo el jodido tiempo del mundo.

There is a saying along the lines of not trying to teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I want you to know how many times I have stood in pig-filled rooms, and longed to annoy. I

You're very good with children," the woman said, noting Sorvalh's responses and tone. "I spend my days dealing with human diplomats," Sorvalh said. "Children and diplomats can be remarkably similar.

This is why I told Lambert to stop going on about it, you know," Powell said. "All the thinking about the steps beyond what we were directly doing. It never makes you happy. It never solves anything for you, right now.

All the thinking about the steps beyond what we were directly doing. It never makes you happy. It never solves anything for you, right now.

When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.

I listen....because I don't have any answers.

Always treat other drivers like they are an overenthusiastic extra from the Mad Max movies.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished you are always surprised. - John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget"—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very few people learn this.

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.

The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment.

If you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you. […] If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

S-l-o-w-ness--it gave meaning to everything. It made everything royal.

It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.