Quotes About Patience

If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.

I love what I do too much to compromise on it. I would rather wait for the work that excites me than just go and do a job so I can stay busy.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

Everyone's careers go at different paces; you need to forget what other people are doing and concentrate on your own progress.

That's the beautiful thing about being a father for the first time; it has really made me get my concentration levels in check.

I know what it's like to go to a concert, wait to hear your favourite song - and then they don't play it!

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.

It's so easy to just give up or get angry with the course or the conditions, but you can't do that.

In overcast conditions where you bat first, we have to try and not lose early wickets.

When I was at Hinckley it was just a case of taking it one step at a time - try to get into the Conference, then League Two and so on.

If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

For me, you have to prove yourself over 10, 12 or 15 years if you want to be among the best. Do that and then I will congratulate you.

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.

I can't conquer all the world at the same time.

I've always been surrounded by children - never bothered by their noise.

I had to find a way of dealing with not starting matches, but when you don't play and you're surrounded by players who do, the negativity comes.

I like surrounding myself with people who think in sort of the timeframes I do, which is often longer.

I think I could survive a week without eating.

When you are playing the longer version, there are times when you don't have to get bat on ball on a regular basis but maybe a good leave outside the off stump can play its part in you surviving and the time that you would like to spend on the crease.

Stardom can be obtained only after surviving and giving good films for almost 20 years.

I had to figure out a different way of walking to ease my journey to the top, surviving in mountains, and more importantly, I learnt patience.

I really like binge-watching 'Survivor.' Watching week to week is exciting, but it's difficult because I just want to see what happens.

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.