Rachel Kushner Quotes

You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal .

We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Good is the delay which makes sure.

Any time you get a title shot, you always try to wait for it the best you can.

I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

It's not good fishing before the net.

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

Above all, what I learned from my Sensei was how to wait. I believe I learned the meaning of waiting on one foot. If I understand anything in this life, it is how to wait. It is not an answer. But for me it is everything.

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

One must wait till it comes.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.