Quotes About Patience

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.

Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!

You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.

If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.

The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

I would advise to to a young girl to think about modeling for a really long time before she does it because it's not as easy as it looks - and to just be herself and not let people make her crazy.

We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.