Quotes About Patience

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

I'm a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.

You can't hurry a loaf of bread. You have to wait for it to prove and rise.

I wait for death and journalists.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.