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“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.”

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Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton is a Swiss writer and philosopher known for his books on philosophy, art, and culture. His work is characterized by its accessible exploration of profound themes, which has won him a wide audience. more

“One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year.” Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months.”

Opportunity Risk Patience Negotiation Business Culture

Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“Don't forget that healing takes time. Don't expect to try meditation and a new skincare line and end up with perfect skin in a week. Give yourself the gift of time and patience. The body is a complicated, miraculous system and each body processes change in its own time.”

Healing Health Patience Skin Skin Care

Book:Soulful Skincare: The ultimate guide to radically transforming your complexion

Source: Soulful Skincare: The ultimate guide to radically transforming your complexion

“Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.”

Life Inspirational Nature Patience Tolerance

Author:Tista Ray

“A novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience.”

Writing Patience Writing Process Novelist Orhan Pamuk

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.”

Patience Concentration Technician

Book:1Q84 #1-2

Source: 1Q84 #1-2

“Patience is a virtue, just like parenting. We aren't born as parents, we learn how to be patent through our kids. From those lessons comes the wisdom to be patient!”

Kids Patience Patient Patience And Love

Author:Martin R. Lemieux

“As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.”

Art Artist Magic Illusion Patience Patient Magician Artists Magical Artistry Illusions Magicians

Author:Amit Kalantri

“My world, created by glass and flame in the birth of your heat, implodes inside the shadowed walls of my heart. I swallowed the shards you gave me, your eyes on mine. Nothing is easy. I wait, feeling your hands holding the shattered pieces of my soul together in the molten, darkest recesses of the heart you claimed, unwilling to give up. I am inside you, waiting to come out.”

Love Patience Shards

Book:Broken Pieces

Source: Broken Pieces

“For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present.”

Life Light Earth Past Science History Eternity Patience Man Present Geology Signs Billions Of Years

Book:Conversation with the Earth

Source: Conversation with the Earth

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