If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

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

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

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.

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.

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

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

Great loves too must be endured.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

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

Genius is patience.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

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

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

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.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

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.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

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.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

I start each book when it’s ready and never before.

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

It’s a big compliment that so many people want to see me. For them, it’s all about football. That’s what they remember about me.

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.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The human heart is the same the world over.

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

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

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

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

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.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.