3 December 2020 Damian Lewis Temperamentally I’m not a natural producer, because I don’t have the patience.
3 December 2020 Aaron Spelling A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it’s tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
3 December 2020 David Hobson I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
3 December 2020 Wesley Morris In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It’s a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.
3 December 2020 Barbara Johnson Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison 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.
3 December 2020 Gustavo Dudamel My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them – their patience, their warmth, their dedication.
3 December 2020 Larry Hagman There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
3 December 2020 Hyman Rickover Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
3 December 2020 Paul Gleason My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
3 December 2020 Brett Ratner In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
3 December 2020 Cee Lo Green Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
3 December 2020 Frances O'Grady My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
3 December 2020 Nicholas Brendon Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
3 December 2020 Star Jones No, you’re not allowed to be bossy when you’re married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
3 December 2020 Michael Haneke Because I’m the author of my screenplays I know what I’m looking for. It’s true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it’s also a question of working with patience and love.
3 December 2020 Bill Brandt Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
3 December 2020 Beverly Cleary When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
3 December 2020 John Quincy Adams Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
3 December 2020 Major Taylor I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
3 December 2020 Frank Rich Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
3 December 2020 Harriet Tubman Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
3 December 2020 Peter Marshall Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
