Quotes About Patience

Delay is the enemy of progress.

I'm a work in progress. You know, my kids didn't come with instructions... and neither did this business, so when I put the two of them together, I gotta take it a little at a time.

In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.

One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you've got to have patience and wait your turn in this game. I feel like I am progressing as an artist, as a writer and as a performer and I know that there will be that one moment that will change everything.

Champions league progression takes years.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.

The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I found myself indulging in the writer's luxury of doing another draft, another idea. If this project isn't happening, then I'll shelve one script and start writing another. And in that way, the years go by, and there's very little money coming in.

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

If you want to become a mother, you can. I promise. It may not happen the way you think, but it's possible. It just takes a combination of a little planning and a lot of living your life.

If we humble ourselves before the Lord, He will lift us up... He will. That's His promise.

We'll be back. I promise you that.

Terence Crawford being across the street - I can't promise it's going to happen this year, but it's going to happen.