Patience Required Quotes

No great thing is created suddenly.

It takes time to restore an old historic car - you can't just do it overnight. That's how I look at the administration that came before Obama.

The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

It took me five years to learn how to sing.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

I've learned that everything is a slow process in the TV and movie industry.

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

Wayne Wang, the director, really helped me become a more mature actress. When I first started filming, I was really over the top. He just helped bring me down and make me real. That was really wonderful, a really wonderful experience. Also, what I learned about filming is it takes forever. I mean, there are so many different angles and shots. I mean, it just takes forever.

Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.

I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.

Where the disease is most deeply seated, there it will be slowest in eradication. In the Northern States it was merely superficial and easily corrected. In the Southern, it is incorporated with the whole system and requires time, patience, and perseverance in the curative process. That it may finally be effected and its progress hastened, will be my last and fondest prayer.

When anybody is just starting the process of cooking, I always say it takes practice, and nobody got to be a great cook on their first try.

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

Movies require a lot of patience. I like instant results. If I have done something that's not funny at all, the audience will let me know in two seconds. With the movie, I will have to wait nine months to know if I was that bad.

Things never come when they are expected.

Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.