The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
I don’t think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It’s a world of instant gratification.
When I first started submitting my work professionally – and we’re talking years and years ago – I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.
As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic weapon; they’ve violated numerous United Nations sanctions, U.S. sanctions by launching ballistic missile tests.
You have to have patience to be a legislator.
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.
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.
You can’t jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
I’m a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I’m pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.
It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something – that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.
For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I’ve got zero patience.
I’ve got to really try and manage my patience out there.
When you’re short on sleep, you’re short on patience. You’re ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It’s harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.
I like to take my own time, and I don’t like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.
The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren’t ever going to give up.
To the fans, thank you for your patience and concern. They’ve been on point with my career, especially after my injuries.
When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the day, ‘patience’ and ‘restraint.’
I still have to work on patience.
TV requires a lot more patience. No one’s ever like, ‘I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!’ It’s an easy life. With ‘Silicon Valley,’ it’s long hours and very unglamorous.
No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they’re really just human.
Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I’m asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.
I’ve got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.
