Quotes About Patience

With Dr. Dre, he's a perfectionist. A lot of people ask why 'Detox' is taking so long. It's because Dre is somebody that is trying to top what he's done. Will he do it? I don't know if he ever will, but I respect that he's trying to do so. You have to wait for a masterpiece.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

A lot of people are gonna hate me before they like me. I'm perfectly fine with that.

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

I want to be a big model. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I believe that will be one day I do it perfectly!

We want things to go perfectly, so we naturally tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right or once we have our bearings, when, really, it would be better to focus on making do with how things actually are.

You can't always say and do things and wait until the right moment, when everything is perfectly lined up. As women, I feel like we do that. I just see so many women take the back seat and wait until the right opportunity, and when you do that, you miss out on the best things.

I've dealt with bigger things than the odd performance, dealt with a hell of a long time out of the game from an injury which shouldn't have kept me out for that long. I've had to deal with fears of not playing again, I'm a bigger man for it and I will be better for it in the future.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

For me, it's been a long road of growth. Not only as a performer but as a man, as a father and all that kind of stuff so at one point in my career I really just wanted to give up and hang it because I wasn't getting anywhere, I wasn't getting myself in good shape.

You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don't become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the company, you have to be strategically patient and tactically impatient.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

A season is very long, and there will be periods where you'll be very good and moments where you won't be as good.

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.