Quotes About Patience

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

I've always enjoyed things going at a nice pace, nothing too fast, nothing too crazy.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

Things have their own pace, and if we work with that pace and anticipate the issues correctly, we can have good results.

I'm happy I'm doing films at a slow pace rather than doing anything and everything.

I work at my own pace, and I work really well when I am not running around.

If you go, go, go, you will get tired. So I had to learn to pace myself. I don't have a problem with five rounds now.

I wasn't overtly ambitious, or tried to get films by hook or crook. I always did things at my own pace.

You know, the NFL, they do things at their own pace.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

I think there's something to be said about pacing yourself.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.

When my skin is breaking out pretty bad, I try to leave it alone as much as I can. I don't want to pack on product after product, I think that makes it worse and kind of overwhelms your skin.

Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you feel you deserve them the most, but they're there. I believe it. You should too. Because now I'm with someone who makes me grow every day. His name is Netflix.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl. If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.

What you write on the page has nothing to do with when you're on set. When you're on set, it has nothing to do with when you're in the editing room. And when you're in the editing room, it has nothing to do with the final movie. You just have to let it go.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.