Quotes About Patience

We live in a very disposable society, and people want everything right away, but unfortunately, vocal technique doesn't come overnight.

I'm one of those guys who, when I'm frustrated, do not get vocal.

I'd gotten used to recording background vocals perfectly, doing 18 takes of them until they line up. Not recognizing the inherent beauty in each performance, but just making something good.

Learning how to be editor-in-chief of 'Vogue' wasn't something that happened overnight.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

There are no free rides nor short cuts in this world. 'The Voice' and 'The Bachelorette' are very poor examples to model your life with.

The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.

I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make my voice more feminine, gotten gender reassignment surgery, and spent time to complete my transition, but I didn't want to wait. I wanted to be in the world.

Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and voices are there when you need them, when you're ready to find them, whether in their time or after.

We had applied for adoption three years ago, but it was during the lockdown that I felt the void even more.

I didn't vote for Bush, and I'm not happy particularly that he's president. But I will say I'm impressed that he didn't start bombing Afghanistan the day after Sept. 11. The more time that passes without him bombing Afghanistan, the more I respect him.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

The American public will give you an awful lot of slack on how you voted on one issue or another if they feel like you have a reason.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

A lot of people who work with Dre, you're lucky if anything sees the light of day.

Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else.

I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away.

There's a point where, sometimes, I'd rather wait a bit and get a fight that sells.

So don't send me up the river yet.

My marriage will happen when Almighty sends a message.

I didn't have my first car until after the end of my senior year. I got a Yukon Sport.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.