“If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.”
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“A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?”
“Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”
“There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.”
“Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.”
“My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.”
“It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.”
“So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.”
“I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.”
“Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.”
“Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.”
“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.”
“Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.”
“I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.”
“Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.”
“Patience was not my strong point.”
“Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.”
“My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.”
“I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.”
“Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.”
“You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.”
“You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.”
“No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.”
“People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.”