Quotes About Patience

Sometimes it takes time to find people in the sport who share the same opinions and approach to racing as me.

I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.

For me, it's just about taking it one at-bat, one pitch, one play at a time.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

It's about being steady and taking the rough with the smooth, but that's life as a goalkeeper.

For me, it's all about taking things a step at a time, proving I'm good enough and on the right path.

If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.

Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

As cliche as it sounds, don't stop. I feel like so often people will have talent or have potential, and they'll quit because they don't get anywhere as soon as they want to.

Your hard work and talent will not pay off.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

You're not always going to get the outcomes you feel like your talent deserves, that you feel like the big picture deserves. And what's real is how do you respond in those situations?

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.

That's why I kept going with my school - I wasn't talented. That's what's the difficulty - you want to define key talents when they are 12, 13 or 14? When I was that age I was nowhere near. People had given up on me.

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

I think it is important not to scream from the rooftops to make yourself heard, I want my work to do the talking for me.