Quotes About Patience

The problem comes when you postpone decisions in the hope that a perfect answer will come to you later. It won't. You're as likely to make a great call today as you are tomorrow.

Grow slow and see what feels right—premature hiring is the death of many companies. And avoid huge growth spurts too—they can cause you to skip right over your appropriate size.

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while first. By all means, have as many great ideas as you can. Get excited about them. Just don't act in the heat of the moment. Write them down and park them for a few days. Then, evaluate their actual priority with a calm mind.

There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only, and fast.

You need an environment where everyone feels safe enough to be honest when things get tough. You need to know how far you can push someone. You need to know what people really mean when they say something. So hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers.

Sometimes abandoning what you're working on is the right move, even if you've already put in a lot of effort. Don't throw good time after bad work.

Similarly, if you lose someone, don't replace him immediately. See how long you can get by without that person and that position.

Berlin, "Try, Try Again, or Maybe Not," New

Start building your audience today. Start getting people interested in what you have to say. And then keep at it. In a few years, you too will get to chuckle when people discuss your "overnight" success.

So hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers.

Human life spans, regrettably, were a couple of centuries too short for patience to stop being a virtue and become a habit.

Slow down and think. Panic doesn't solve problems; it just creates new ones.

Jakku had trained her to do two things better than anyone else could. The first was to salvage broken things. The second was to wait.

head first, But Kate was still

The self-assured Mr. White had made a single big bet and kissed one frog expecting it to turn into a prince, but had forgotten the rule of frogs and princes. You need to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince!

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.

The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).

en eso consiste la vida civilizada: en aprender a convivir de manera razonable con la frustración.

Es otro de los inconvenientes de padecer una desgracia: al que la sufre los efectos le duran mucho más de lo que dura la paciencia de quienes se muestran dispuestos a escucharlo y acompañarlo, la incondicionalidad nunca es muy larga si se tiñe de monotonía

Quando uma pessoa deseja uma coisa durante muito tempo, é muito difícil deixar de o desejar, isto é, admitir ou dar-se conta de que já não a deseja ou que prefere outra coisa. A espera alimenta e potencia esse desejo, a espera é acumulativa relativamente ao que se espera, solidificando-o e torna-o pétreo.

Én lehiggadtam, és hagytam telni a napokat; ez a legjobb módja, hogy eloszlassunk vagy szétkergessünk bizonyos dolgokat a valóságban, még ha örökre a gondolatainkban és a birtokunkban is maradnak, szilárdan és rothadón, rettenetes b?zt árasztva magukból. Csak így tudjuk elviselni Å'ket és együtt élni velük. Ugyan ki ne hordozna magában ilyesmit?

Holnaptól tudatosan törekszem rá, hogy ne élÅ' teremtmény, hanem csak emlék legyen számomra, még ha jó ideig pusztító emlék is. De türelem, eljön majd a nap, amikor már nem lesz így.