Quotes About Patience

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird

On the whole, as the morbid & mucilaginous monkey said when he climbed up to the top of the Palm-tree & found no fruit there - one can't depend upon dates.

The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one's mind is a natural impulse when one wishes others to know these facts, just as to cuddle and pat a sick child is a natural impulse. But telling a fact to a child may not cure his ignorance of it any more than patting him will cure his scarlet fever. (p. 61)

But because kids today have so little free time, and because they're always surrounded by media, they don't explore what's off the beaten path. They want their fun to be quick and easy. The art of being bored is lost." . . . There's no question that Klauber's findings are

I guess I always thought that's just what life was—one long series of disappointments interrupted by moments of hope.

The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly. Otherwise, as Douglas says, it's just not worth the effort. It's too boring.

The best reason to take your time is that this time is the only time you'll ever have.

The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly. Otherwise

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

Too bad. Lesson: It doesn't pay to push the other party to their absolute limit. A small extra gain is generally not worth the substantial risk the deal will break up.

As Keynes said, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

This plan, of betting only at a level at which I was emotionally comfortable and not advancing until I was ready, enabled me to play my system with a calm and disciplined accuracy. This lesson from the blackjack tables would prove invaluable throughout my investment lifetime as the stakes grew ever larger. Eddie

This plan, of betting only at a level at which I was emotionally comfortable and not advancing until I was ready, enabled me to play my system with a calm and disciplined accuracy. This lesson from the blackjack tables would prove invaluable throughout my investment lifetime as the stakes grew ever larger.

There must be an ability to pass long hours in study and research with pleasure even though some of the effort will inevitably lead to dead ends. Such is the price of admission.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I know they're not actually talking but the books on my desk seem to whisper "Drop what you're doing! Set aside your poetry! Open us, read us! Read slowly while you're at it. Always read us - every day - before you play.

No single person could hope to reproduce this inherited wisom on his own. As Confucius puts it, "I once engaged in thought for an entire day without eating and an entire night without sleeping., but it did no good. It would have been better for me to have spent that time learning." Thinking on one's own might be compared to randomly banging on a piano: a million monkeys given a million years might produce something, but its better to start with Mozart.

The best way to contradict him is to let him talk