Quotes About Patience

I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

I just love poker players.

Always keep in mind that poker is about limiting your losses and maximizing your gains on every hand you play.

In poker, you've got to start at the bottom level and work your way up. This advice applies to the limits that you play and the sizing of the bets that you make.

Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.

You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

I don't really have the patience to do my hair, which is why it's always parted down the middle, slicked, in a low ponytail or a messy high bun. I'm too lazy to do my own hair, but I like doing my makeup.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

As my grandma used to say, 'Between now and then, a pope could be born.' We never say what's going to happen tomorrow. We make the most of today.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

Defensive midfield can be the one position that's easier to play as you get older.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.