The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.
There’s more luck in poker. Getting good at golf requires a certain amount of physical aptitude. Both take a lot of patience. Both require knowing when to gamble – either with a big bluff or a high-risk shot. Both can be infuriating.
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don’t know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.
When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.
To become a professional, you have to train a lot, which I did from a very early age. Of course, it helps if your character is very competitive and you have patience and perseverance.
The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
It seems likely that many of the young who don’t wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don’t have the patience to make art.
I’m terrible with patience.
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it’d be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
I have no patience at all.
The great saints were always great innovators… They had to be very strong people… principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.
Being a wife and mother are the single most important roles in my life. They take a lot of work, a lot of patience, and help from God and His Word, but if you put in the effort, it’s more fulfilling than anything on earth.
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.
I think young people don’t appreciate that when you’re in your 70s, you’ll lose patience for techie stuff and you may decide that you want a simple device.
I have no patience for wasting time.
I haven’t got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her – she was charming.
I would say that my forte is cutting the line. My entire life’s work is me having zero patience and not waiting in a line.
Patience can be a good thing – but not necessarily. Sometimes it’s not so bad to be impatient. I’m a little bit too polite.
I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.
Things that are uncomfortable and demand time and effort and patience we can switch off to. And I am intrigued by that concept. It’s about human tolerance.
You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
If you don’t have patience in this profession, you almost always end up getting bent out of shape expecting quick results.
