Quotes About Patience

Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time

life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

He sat quietly, whether thinking or fuming or both, it was hard to tell. But he eventually arrived at a reply. It felt like some great mystic was about to reveal the Meaning of Life. "Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he'd learned. I accepted it as truth.

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Remember: any fool can argue about anything, but it takes someone strong to hold their tongue to a fool.

Twelve days wil be heaps of time. You don't want to over-reherse these things, otherwise you lose that rough edge

Hope is the best form of torture

Try eating with chopsticks. Even in experienced hands, they tend to slow eating rate.

man scatters seed on the ground … the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how." Had the farmer from scripture postponed his sowing until he understood the biology of seed germination, he wouldn't have lasted very long.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

The king of Siam once asked his wise men for a proverb that would be appropriate for any occasion. They suggested "This, too, shall pass". Well, in biochemistry an equally appropriate saying for all occasions is "Things are more complicated than they seem".

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.

Time is our friend, because for us there is no end. He

He had lost patience with his father's strategy of catering to lower- and middle-income residents of Brooklyn and Queens, and what was required to manage them. When he found tenants throwing trash out of the windows, he began a program "to teach people about using the incinerators." Company employees warned him that he was "liable to get shot" if he tried to collect rent at the wrong time.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

Don't worry where I am. I'll tell you when I get there.

I know time holds the winning

Cuddy believed if he waited until he could get everything ready at once, make all arrangements, forget no detail, then life would begin for him like a birthday party at last, and keep on noisy and warm always.