I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

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.

No greater thing 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.

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

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

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

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

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I like a drama.

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

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

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.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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.

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

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

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

I can’t act!

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.