Quotes About Patience

Like a sporting event, live events are the one thing you can't have anytime you want them.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

Having faith and trust that one day things will be greater, it sometimes is the one thing you need to stay positive in a negative situation.

Don't be surprised if you don't connect as a father right away. That's the one thing... No one ever talked to me about it.

The one thing I'm good at is taking things day by day.

I think the one thing about Kawhi is he literally stays level-headed all the time, he never gives up, he never gets down.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

At the end of the day that's the only thing you can't pay for, the thing you can't get back. So you gotta learn to sacrifice that time to put something you trying to invest in.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.

The problem with getting injured when you get older is that it takes longer to recover.

That's the problem with our industry: patience. People want instant NBA stars, and that's not going to happen.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.

I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.

I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.