I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. And I don’t have the patience to grow the longest fingernails in the world. Why not be the fastest woman on four wheels? It makes complete sense.
My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.
Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
I don’t have much patience as I really like to work a lot and it is really hard to work a lot in movies because you have to have patience – every movie is a huge test of patience.
To anybody who says to me, ‘I’m in character,’ I say, ‘You should be in an asylum.’ If you don’t know that you’re pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don’t have patience for that stuff.
I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen… I don’t think I have the patience for cooking.
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who’s interested in a good building and not in my name.
I don’t really have the patience to do my hair, which is why it’s always parted down the middle, slicked, in a low ponytail or a messy high bun. I’m too lazy to do my own hair, but I like doing my makeup.
In white-ball cricket, things are different – over there, you outsmart the batsman, and over here in Test cricket, it’s all about patience and consistency.
I’m patient.
I’m a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don’t have the patience, but I am a huge foodie.
Genius is eternal patience.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent.
Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.
With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it.
I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we’re walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.
It’s amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I’m a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.
You can’t make money on borrowed knowledge. If following Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was all it took to make money, a lot more people would be rich. It requires patience and you learn from mistakes.
I think there’s not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
I don’t play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Kids teach you a lot of patience.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
I have learnt that patience is important: patience when you bowl and also in how you handle life.
As a young footballer, it’s not easy to come from Canada and then try to play in one of the best teams in the world. It takes time, especially at a young age. It takes a lot of patience to be able to play.
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!
I wrote three stories on spec because I didn’t have the patience to convince people I could write.
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it’s not a Grateful Dead project, it’s a Me project.
My grandfather didn’t have any patience for little kids or their needs.
My patience level can be my weakness, but I know I can deal with anyone.
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football – you have to keep your thoughts positive. I’m not sure I’ve got that mastered.
With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that’s how most bonfires begin – as a simple spark.
When generation changes,, things get outdated but then if you have talent and patience, you bounce back.
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don’t begin soon. It works sometimes.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it’s a lot of hard work and patience. You can’t play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man’s success.
The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.
There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
I think God’s really blessed me with patience. I’m good with a lot of things going on at once.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it’s not something we F1 people have too much of.
I’ve learnt that you need to have a thick skin, lots of patience and be consistently good.
Interns can be hard on me and I’m hard on them. They have no experience and I have little patience when they don’t know how to address an envelope or can’t put a date in the calendar properly (I mean literally, like with the right floor number or proper cross streets).
Sandy Meisner would say it takes 20 years to make an actor. Some people it takes five, some people 30. And you have to have patience and forgiveness for yourself. It’s hard when you see people at your age or younger becoming successful.
Watching ‘Moonlight,’ I just recognized this patience in the film – allowing moments to live and linger – and I just thought that was so beautiful.
Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience.
I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don’t have the patience.
