Quotes About Patience

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

God has a funny way of giving you the answer when you get your mind away from goofy things.

We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

Don't kill the golden goose.

I don't fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, 'Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.'

When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.

I don't have that 'OMG, I gotta get married' thing! If it happens, it happens, but it's never been like, 'Oooo, I need to do that!'

People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.

Sometimes, the best shots you can put up are the ones when you don't shoot the ball - you gotta give your legs a rest sometimes.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys.

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

Some of the life lessons that my mom has taught me is that the road is not for the fastest or the swiftest, but it's for those who enjoy it to the end. Just telling you that life is not pure grace. It's like a marathon.

You know that feeling when your leg falls asleep and you can't really feel it or move it? Well, that's what my legs feel like all the time, so being fluid and graceful has been difficult.

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

I started to play in the fourth grade and didn't score for, like, a whole year.

Getting healthy, getting into shape is a gradual process.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do. If things need to change, it has to be gradual.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!