Quotes About Patience

she wants to wait till she graduates although me, I'm thinking this summer would be good; I mean, she could finish school in California just as well as at Kinney, so I'm hoping to talk her around, but in any case

I will make myself count to ten before I speak to the children in anger

Time softened on Sundays; it stretched itself out in vast rubbery lengths, and by two o'clock, there was more of it than would ever be needed for anything. There was no point in reading a book, writing a letter, or playing a game, because time was too flaccid ever to proceed to the moment in which the plot would twist, the letter would be sent, or the game would be won.

Yes, it's tough, it's tough, that goes without saying. But isn't waiting itself and longing a wonder, being played on by wind, sun, and shade?

There is always an enormous temptation to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

But it won't be much of a battle, will it? Alek asked. What can an airship do to a pair of ironclads? My guess is, we'll stay absolutely still for an hour.  Just so we don't fall into any bad habits.

MOST THINGS DON'T HAPPEN

Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.

The war will end one day. Wars always do.

But I wanted to finish your book.

I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.

At other times I sit and wait. If nothing comes, I've discovered that it's better just to write something – anything. You can always tear up the piece of paper and throw it away. But if you don't begin, then nothing comes. You have to submit.

One thing I had learned from medicine, however, was that denial was often a good strategy; it could buy time for wounds to heal themselves.

He had survived two days in his underwear on the North Atlantic. Later, when asked how long it took him to warm up after his ordeal, he said, without a hint of irony, "Oh, three or four months.

Size de iÅŸlerin yolunda gittiÄŸi yegane zamanlar, hiçbir beklentinizin olmad??? dönemlermiÅŸ gibi gelmiyor mu?

Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

There's a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes we're being childlike. When we demand instant gratification and a guarantee that everything will be ok, we're only being childish.

Teaching Fire a Lesson Fire is hot. That's what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn't do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won't be hot next time is certainly not time well spent. Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it's not human. But human beings are similar, in that they're not going to change any time soon either.

Crash diets don't work. They don't work for losing weight, they don't work for making sales quota and they don't work for getting and keeping a job. The reason they don't work has nothing to do with what's on the list of things to be done (or consumed). No, the reason they don't work is that they don't change habits, and habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.