Quotes About Patience

Things happen. You just have to accept it and move on. I get that from my dad. He's a real chilled character.

You still just got to play your game. No matter where you're at, you've got to play your game, especially in majors. When you try to push and try to make things happen, that's when you can make some big numbers at the majors.

Things happen overnight for some people, not everyone.

When you surrender to God, He makes things happen.

I can only control what I can control at the end of the day, so some things you just can't allow to take your head the other way, some things happen for a reason.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.

Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down.' Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.

You've got the armor and everything on, and you think, 'This is going to be great.' Then they give you a sword, and you think, 'Ah, it's not too bad.' And after 10 minutes you're thinking, 'Please, I can't be doing this all day.' I mean, I really don't know how people sustained themselves in real battles.

Thinking ahead or thinking behind is not good for me.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances.

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.