Waiting Around Quotes

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

  Morris West

  Happiness, Summer, Christian

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

  Dr. Seuss

  Friday, Uncles, Night

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  We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• All good things come to those who wait.

  Paullina Simons

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Patience, Funny Inspirational, Life Changing

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess good things come to those who wait.

  Kurt Busch

  Patience, Monday, Funny Inspirational

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• Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

  Edward de Bono

  Lying, Opportunity, Ideas

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.

  Clive James

  Thinking, Media, Use

  "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

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• I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.

  Donnie Yen

  Actors, Wonder, Made

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• We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford to take a position of waiting around to see.

  Willie Parker

  Trump, Notion, Position

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.

  Ariel Pink

  Home, Opportunity, Moon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are just waiting around to get certified.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Waiting

  "A Conversation With Frank Zappa" By Dave Rothman, "Oui", April 1979.

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• The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Succeed, Permission

  Source: www.fool.com

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• I find it rather tedious working with some actors who have to go into a corner and bounce up and down, shake their hands and arms, saying to the director, "Just a second - I'll be ready in a few minutes, " while all the other actors are waiting around to get in. Then they say, "OK! I'm ready now." And then they come on and do it exactly the same way they've done it in rehearsal.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hands, Rehearsal, Arms

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, People, Lines

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

  Wanda Sykes

  Jobs, Writing, Comedian

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• It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen.

  Whit Stillman

  Actors, Shooting, Trailers

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I used to live on the other side of Canberra so it'd take me about 20-25-minutes to come into training. I was so thankful to have a car. Mum was also happy because she had all this extra time instead of driving me to training, waiting around, and then taking me home.

  Melissa Breen

  Home, Extra Time, Car

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

  Aaron Bruno

  Winning, Chance, Happens

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• How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?

  Vanna Bonta

  Heart, Decision, Waiting

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• I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

  Natalia Tena

  Film, Intimate, Bigger

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