Impatient Quotes - Page 9

• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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• Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped...less often.

  Cherie Priest

  Gun, Air, Texas

  Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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• I gained everything. Or at least I'll think so," he growled, suddenly impatient, anxious, "when you give me a bloody answer to my bloody question. How many times are you going to make me ask you? Will you marry me, Gabrielle O'Callaghan? Yes or yes? And in case you're still managing to miss the point, the correct answer is 'yes.' And, by the way, anytime you'd like to tell me you love me, I wouldn't mind hearing it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Giving, Missing

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• I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour - for the horse was soon tackled - was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

  Lysander Spooner

  Morning, Horse, Party

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• As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Graduation, Passion

  Remarks by the President at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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• By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Done, Matter, Great Work

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.85, Bottom of the Hill

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• Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Children, Parent

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

  Jane Austen

  Desire, Events, Satisfaction

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

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• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Men, Ideas

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• About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

  Gene Tierney

  Careers, Serious, Sometimes

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

  Ken Kesey

  People, Guy, Waiting

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.67, Hamilton Books

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• Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• "Connected" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous... I don't doubt that instant communication has been good for business, even for the publishing business, but it has done nothing for literature, and might even have harmed it. In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there is too much) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected.

  Paul Theroux

  Confused, Communication, Ideas

  "Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings". Book by Paul Theroux, 2000.

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• I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

  Ralph Gibson

  Use, Tripods

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• I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did.

  Jean Ferris

  Hurt, Sorry, Believe

  Jean Ferris (2009). “Twice Upon a Marigold”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Morning, Too Much, Cold

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

  Daniel Keyes

  Doors, Charlie

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• Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Names, Desire

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

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• Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.

  Paul Ehrenfest

  Mind, Frogs, Bears

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• Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Investing, Littles, Action

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• I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

  Rita Hayworth

  Taken, Eye, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

  William Hazlitt

  Beauty, Flames, Links

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Moving, Fall

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.309, Transaction Publishers

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• How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Race

  "Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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• Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Engineering, Symbolism, Trying

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