Impatient Quotes - Page 6

• When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

  Susan Collins

  Class, Dancing, Beginners

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark on. Always on tiptoe, anticipating discovery. Such people find change as necessary as the air they breathe.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Change, Air, Discovery

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• I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moving, Moon, Thinking

  "Q&A: Buzz Aldrin on "In the Shadow of the Moon"". Interview with Shawn Adler, www.mtv.com. June 09, 2007.

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• I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

  Michael Buble

  Hockey, Player, Thinking

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• The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more.

  Charles Dickens

  Crazy, Rain, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.500

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• I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

  Pablo Schreiber

  Moving, Ambitious, Want

  Broadway Bullet Interview, www.broadwaybullet.com. March 26, 2007.

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• One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Mother, Baby, Waiting

  "Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death". www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

  William Butler Yeats

  Teacher, Father, Book

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

  James Joyce

  Adventure, Insecure, Choices

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• When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Heart, Desire

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• I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Feelings, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.79

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• 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.

  John Gokongwei

  Rewards, Financial, Small Successes

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• If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.

  Hermann Hesse

  Intelligent, Men, Long

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

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• That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

  Thornton Wilder

  Years, Needs, Advantage

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• Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

  Jeff Goodell

  Believe, Needs, Done

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• Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Writing, Years

  "INTERVIEW: Author Patrick Rothfuss on his Worldbuilders Charity, Writing, Reading and Giving". Interview with Matthew Jackson, nerdbastards.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Done, Too Much

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• I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Patient, Impatience

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• I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody it. They know how to listen. They are polite when they need to be and unyielding when necessary. They remain open, even as they push boundaries and inhabit the margins, understanding eventually, the margins will move toward the center. They are tenacious, informed, patient, and impatient, at once. They do not shy away from what is difficult. They refuse to accept the unacceptable. The most effective activists I know are in love with the world.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Powerful, Moving, Heart

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

  Nancy Pearcey

  Relentless, Areas

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• I didn't realize what I was doing, but once I realized, I was like "this is a gift, let me do this the right way." I don't gotta rush nothing, I don't have to be impatient. Because when you have a gift with something, it's a blessing. You just use it. You don't have to do anything drastic, because it's in you. People told me what it was, and I just stuck with it.

  The Jacka

  Blessing, People, Realizing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

  Bernard Pivot

  People, Feelings, Complaining

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• I think a play can do almost anything, because it's also a static form, much more so than in a movie. In a movie you can move the scenery, you can do anything any way. A cartoon, happens in a limited amount of space and a limited amount of time, and you can only get so many words before the reader's gonna get impatient. All of these forms that I enjoy are in a sense a slight of hand, where you have to suggest much more than you really show. You have to, in a sense, seduce the reader and trick the reader or the audience into going with you.

  Jules Feiffer

  Moving, Thinking, Cartoon

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• I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Believe, People, Intelligence

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My life and some letters”

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• Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

  George Eliot

  People, Bees, Impatience

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