Quotes About Patience

The future never enters the present as a finished product, but that doesn't stop people from expecting it to arrive that way.

Einstein once said, "If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it,

While it's fun to be near someone interesting for occasional chats, being stuck next to a person who will not stop talking for nine hours is my idea of hell.

Patience is a manifestation of trust. It conveys to the other person that he or she is worth the time.

And the more you do to force it in, the less of what you wanted to acquire in the first place remains. The vast majority of acquisitions fail for this reason.

It should never be a surprise that progress seems to slow as the finish line approaches, even if everyone is working just as hard as they were before.

In haste, mistakes cascade. With deliberation, mistakes instruct."[

he possesses uncommon patience. He rarely checked his phones or gadgets. When he was in the room, he was fully present and generous with his attention. He listened. More so, he was an amazing manager of his personal time and attention.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.

Beer now,bitch later.

Surely you realize," said Patience, "that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.

I don't have to fight or run," [Locke] cackled. "I changed the rules of the game. I just have to keep you here...asshole. Here...until...Jean gets back.

Well, hell. It's been five years. Maybe she's learned to lose gracefully. Maybe she's out of practice." "Maybe trained monkeys will climb out of my ass and pour me a glass of Austershalin brandy," said Jean.

Can't buy in for the last hand if you don't get there in time to take a chair.

I don't get it,' said Locke, gently tugging at the scruff of Regal's neck. 'I never even liked cats all that much.' 'Surely you realize,' said Patience, 'that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.

Get used to gaps in your comprehension," said Sabetha. "The rest of us certainly have.

He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.

I need an election adjusted." "How adjusted?" "As a cautious estimate?" Patience turned to the window and stared out into the rain. I need it rigged from top to bottom.

Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

I just want nice, neat little jobs from you, Lamora. I want a purse here, a sausage there. I want you to swallow your ambition, shit it out like a bad meal, and be a circumspect little teaser for about the next thousand years. Can you do that for me? Don't rob any more yellowjackets. Don't burn any more taverns. Don't start any more fucking riots. Just pretend to be a coarse-witted little cutpurse like your brothers and sisters. Clear?

life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.

he learned anew how slowly time could crawl when there was some misery to dwell on.