Quotes About Patience

In my years of doing the K1 fights, one thing I've learned is that the guys who you think will be there in the end - very rarely do you get the match up you were hoping for.

I don't want to be in any rat race.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

I am not in a hurry to be number one. I don't want to be in the rat race in that sense.

I always loved Test cricket, and I rate it very highly.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.

I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.

Gardening is not a rational act.

After 'Honey' I read the rave reviews and thought I had it made. But it was two-and-a-half years before I was on the screen again.

I spent two years at NXT and a lot of times questioned, 'When is this going to happen?' or 'Is this actually going to happen? Am I going to make it to 'Raw?''

Ray Clemence was the best in the world at having nothing to do for 89 minutes and then in the 90th minute making a great save.

I have learned that you need to have patience, perseverance, and faith in people to reach your goals.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

We kind of reached this point in life where we don't really want to put out anything just to put something out. We really don't want it to be like, 'Two years are up. You've had your break; now do another record and get it out there.'

I'd reached the point at West Brom where I'd play well, score goals, set up goals and nothing would come from it. I'd go home, come back the next day and everything would be the same. No reward, no response.

Early on in my career, I used to get out in the 30s, 40s, fifties, and 60s. So I really appreciated reaching my first hundred.

Of all the things that can frustrate a guitarist the most, it's the nagging feeling that he's not reaching a certain level of proficiency as quickly as he should.

What's important is to listen before you react.

Not every single minute of your career will go well, individually and collectively, and not every season will go how you want it to, but it's how you react to that.

Every GM will tell you it's an instinct. It's an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do anything at all. It just comes. What I can say is you must have a plan and a goal and a way to do things. At the end of the day, it's an instinct. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.

I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You're always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.