Quotes About Patience

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

Just because you fall down doesnt mean your hurt in the process yet mabey you found your lost ear ring

Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.