R. W. Apple Jr. Quotes

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

We won't know for a few years.

You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

The long view counts.

Technology always takes longer [to develop] than you think.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

All I get is tomorrow.

Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

I hope it won't take long.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

He who awaits much can expect little.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.