Waiting Quotes - Page 29

• I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.

  Gwen Stefani

  Years, Trying, Records

  "It's Good To Be Gwen Stefani". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 9, 2004.

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• K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

  Ed Viesturs

  Rocks, Ice, Snow

  Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2009). “K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain”, p.310, Broadway Books

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• Well, all across the country, this is kind of sad, unemployment offices are swamped with people waiting to file for unemployment insurance. It's gotten so bad that the offices are overwhelmed and can't function. I got an idea. Why don't you hire more people? They're right there in line. Speed this whole thing up!

  Jay Leno

  Country, Ideas, Office

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• Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

  Henry Ford

  Cost, Buying, Management

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.91, 谷月社

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• Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

  James May

  People, Car, Hip Hop

  "Top Gear/ Episode #6.1". Comedy, Talk-Show, May 22, 2005.

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• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  B. F. Skinner

  Holocaust, Nuclear, Steps

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• I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Able, Results, Stores

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• Experience teaches us when to wait and when to move forward.

  Janette Oke

  Moving, Moving Forward, Teach

  Janette Oke (1989). “The Father of Love”, Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers

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• I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not get a single image that you like or works, and you won't really know for a few days at least as you wait. It connects you and grounds you to a material reality and a patience that seems lost with digital. I also think the grain texture remains forever different, and in my opinion, what I find to be more beautiful.

  Anton Yelchin

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

  Robert Stack

  Phones, Rings

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• Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.

  Maria Shriver

  Perfect, World, Changing The World

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• Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

  Charlie Brooker

  Army, Fire, Doors

  "Supposing... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.

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• Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

  Elliott Abrams

  Mean, Winter, Years

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• We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Years, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting

  Patricia Marx

  Long, Wells

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• The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.

  Keiko Nobumoto

  Lying, Flower, Sadness

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• Planning is like "pointing yourself" in the direction of a target...no more than that. Let your power then redefine the target, and re-point you in the correct direction. Think of it like this: An arrow is never going to hit the target unless it's in flight. If you sit around and wait for God to shoot the arrow, nothing is going to happen.

  Lee Carroll

  Thinking, Arrows, Target

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

  Jay Watson

  Song, Writing, Phrases

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Song, Perfect, Guy

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wunc.org. January 1, 2016.

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• Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."

  Hal Holbrook

  Golf, Years, Play

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• These days that wouldn't happen - waiting for the light to be exactly right. Because it takes time and time is money. And with these big productions with expensive actors, you just don't have the time to get every shot exactly right.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Light, Actors, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch, based on the attacks.

  Michael Demon Calce

  World, Hacking, Hackers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential - you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.

  Caroline Myss

  Knowing, Giving, Filled

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Spiritual, Religious, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Real, Years, Passing By

  Source: therumpus.net

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