Quotes About Patience

David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.

I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

Sport doesn't work on knee-jerk reactions.

What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.

So, just make the right reads and the ball will always come back around to you. Taking the right shots and not forcing anything. Just let the game slow down and play free.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

It's hard to come off the bench and be ready all the time.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove me crazy because, in general, I'm ready to play my part.

My fans should always be ready for new music.

It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.

I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.