Best 73 quotes in «impatient quotes» category

One of the best ways to start being impatient is to stop meditating.

Only a fool would speak of their impatience or intolerance with pride.

We sometimes hide our inability, impatience, or laziness behind the pretext of being realistic.

Some people are a degree of impatience away from expecting shade from a seed.

There are so many impatient people in the world. It seems everyone wants something right this second. We don't want to wait in lines, we get fidgety when our food takes too long to cook, and we have no tolerance whatsoever for anyone who holds us up from doing anything we want to do the moment we want to do it. I'm bothered right now that I'm having to wait till the end of this sentence to see what word I end up on. On, who knew? It's particularly hard to wait for things that are days or weeks or even months away. Calendars mock you, clocks pester you, and the rotation of the earth seems to slow by at least forty percent. I suppose, however, that if you were preparing to take over the world and you needed one final piece to fall into place, but that piece had to be slowly dragged over the dirt so it didn't die, that would be really hard to wait for. I'd feel sorry for whoever that happened to, but then again they were trying to take over the world and all. So please, no sympathy for Azure.

...She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept.

Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.

The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient with your parents, when you were rude to your teachers and didn’t stand up for strangers, that guilt is marvellous. It proves that you are human, that you want to be better. Thank this guilt for teaching you, for making you aware. And now endeavour to better yourself. It is a lifelong work to become the person we want to be.

We’re becoming impatient and lazy and we’re allowing this to shape our approach to our relationships. But successful relationships aren’t handed over on a plate, or downloaded at the click of a button, or ours in twenty-four hours for just £9.99 extra. Relationships are up there with food, water, clothing and shelter and you can’t just buy them or trade them in for an upgrade.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

You can be impatient and get fewer results or you can be patient and enjoy more than you desired. The choice is totally yours.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious." Just what I wanted to hear. "So how are you getting here?" "My private jet." Of course, he had a private jet. "When can you be here?" "I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower." "I prefer ma petite to flower.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Having written pilots, in recent years, for networks that are dusty on a shelf somewhere, I was growing more and more impatient and eager to create something and just get it seen. Ultimately, that's what you're in the business to do.

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.

It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.

I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Paula Abdul's really impatient to start a family. She says if she has to wait much longer she's going to go crazy-er.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.