Quotes About Patience

Even if you're working a day-to-day job in the meantime to support your creative endeavors, you shouldn't give up, and make sure you don't lose focus.

I've been embracing aging. I always have, since I was a kid. When you're the kid on the set for so long, you just, like, daydream about being older.

There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.

'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

When you start rushing into things, that's when you get some deals that may not be the right ones.

You hear a song like 'Wait For It,' you hear a song like 'Dear Theodosia' - if you get one of those songs in a musical - one - it's worth dropping everything to sing that one song.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

I never thought of making my India debut right after the U-19 win. I took it match by match.

Before I made my Test debut, I had played nearly nine years of first-class cricket.

I have always been slow to sign films, ever since my debut.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

I know what it feels like to have a talent and not be able to use it for almost half a decade.

Two decades in athletics is a long time in sports.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

When you learn Indian classical music, sometimes it takes decades to perfect a raga.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

You don't want to make big decisions in a rush.

I've had to think about my haircare more seriously since growing it long. When you have short hair you're constantly dealing with much younger sections of hair and it always looks really healthy. With longer hair it takes more time and dedication.

When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.