Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Great loves too must be endured.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.