Quotes About Patience

If for half a year you only get 10 minutes to play from the bench, then you have no rhythm.

I don't want to stay on the bench all the time.

If I'm on the bench, it's the bench. If I'm playing five or 30 minutes, I'm good.

Actually I think it's better for me to come off the bench, because for them first couple of minutes when that first five is in there, you can see the little things and what you need to do when you get in there.

I know what it's like to sit on the bench.

No one wants to sit on the bench.

I'm more of somebody who'll bend over backwards for people and, you know, wait at the back of the line until everybody's taken care of. That's really my nature.

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.

I'm not making any bets on the future.

For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.

This world would be a better place if people just realized that there's no written-in-stone set time to do anything. You could meet the love of your life at 18 or 48. You could become an amazing mom and be in the right head for that incredible journey at 24 or 42.

I know that whatever God does is for my betterment.

I modeled for 4 years before I felt like I had my big break.

Oh, I definitely want to direct. I have young children. My job is already big enough, and I imagine it will be even more so as a director, and I don't want to miss out on them growing up. I'm going to wait until they're a bit older before I leap into that seat.

If you can get along in a big family day in and day out, you can get along with anyone.

When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.'

If you just trust the process, that's the big thing.

One of the big things is I try not to worry about things I can't control.

There is a bigger plan for us. There is some reason we haven't had a kid. Our kid hasn't come yet for some reason. We really believe that.

Learning how to slow the game down is the biggest thing.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday.