Quotes About Patience

It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.

I am the kind of person who likes taking one step at a time and raising the bar with each film.

I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

One of the biggest lessons I've learnt is patience. It's critical when raising a child.

Raising children is not easy, and what works for one child may not work for the other.

I'm not afraid to do long rallies. I like that.

We all have this idea of Ram being a patient person besides being a great archer, a horse-rider, and above all, a compassionate king. There is more to him than that.

If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion, I'd still be in Nova Scotia.

Watching 'Doctor Who' in the United States meant I was always behind the times - PBS didn't get new episodes until two years after they ran, and I was aware of the show's cancellation before the characters themselves knew, at least in my corner of the world.

The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

I was on my way to fetch my little sister from school when I met with an accident. A bike which was at a very high speed ran over my leg while I was crossing the road. My leg was so badly fractured that it took me almost seven months to be able to stand on my legs again.

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

You go out on the practice range, and something kind of clicks, and you start hitting the ball very crisply. And you're sure that you've found it, the holy grail - that all you have to do is hold your hand in a certain way. Then you go out on the golf course, and it's completely disappeared.

I never really had long range plans. I take one season at a time, every day at a time.

If I spend a couple of hours practising on the driving range, my 10 handicap becomes a 12 by the time I get on the course.

It is hard to stand out there on the range and beat balls when you are thinking: 'God, I don't really know what I am doing.'

I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.

Life has a funny way of letting things fall into place when you least expect it.

I have a long fuse.

I don't take pressure. I can't really work under pressure. I do one film at a time, and I try to live in that character and in the moment. I am not a futuristic person who thinks what is going to happen after five years. And I don't live in the past.

Everyone knows with a rookie, you're going to take lumps. Even with a first-, second-, third-year guy, you're going to take lumps until you gain that experience. But for me, it was nice to get out there and get the experience and do it. I'm a guy that has to do it.

I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you can, and the small gains you make will eventually pay off.

You cannot have lasting success if you are only looking for short term gains.