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“I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it.”

Ifs Mind Wells Persons Made I Can Different Enough Different Things Restless Impatient Headstrong

Author:Vivien Leigh

“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.”

Persons Sometimes Eye Wanted Remember Taken Cried Impatient Glamorous Picture Taken

Author:Rita Hayworth

“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.”

Form Pleasure Beauty Objects Limits Highest Strive Impression Flames Fancy Links Strife Impatient Exquisite Grandeur Uneasy Kindred

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.”

People Thinking Knows Years Firsts Artist Next Waiting Careers Expectations Rate Curious Willingness Next Year Impatient

Author:Mark Van Doren

“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?”

“The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.”

Humans Made Stills Turns Lost Heaven Mistake Wonderful Commitment Saint Hungry Temper Wonderful Things Impatient Made A Mistake Egotistical Scolded

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.”

Littles Long Doe Running Force Community Gains Corporate Long Runs Adequate Impatient

Book:Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson

Source: Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson

“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”

Positive Ambition Buddhist Delay Rivals Impatient My Ambition Like Love

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.”

“Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?”

Men Havens Patience Generosity Generous Impatient

Author:Megan Chance

“The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.”

People Ifs Thinking Age Today Young Girl Parent Speech Dresses Old Age Reverence Behaviour Foolishness Restraint Impatient

Author:Socrates

“I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.”

Feels Should Littles Persons States Today America My Friends Patient Colleagues Impatient Public Education America Today Education In America Patient Person

Author:Eli Broad

“To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.”

People Ifs Thinking Age Next Waiting Growing Honest Projects Old Age Wiser Very Happy Growing Old Impatient Growing Older

Author:Michael Haneke

“My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.”

Ends Might Happens Father Waiting Sun Clear Sky Months Cold Towns Raised Winter Warm Ice Ease March Grey Unpredictable Impatient Grey Skies

Book:Girl With a Pearl Earring

Source: Girl With a Pearl Earring

“In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”

Humans Principles Oppression Beast Pants Impatient Deliverance

Author:Phillis Wheatley

“The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.”

People World Believe Made Jesus Challenges Violence Movement Crosses Resurrection Impatient

Book:Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)

Source: Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)

“Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.”

Feels Long Lost Strong Strength Losing Anger Blind Errors Impatient

Book:The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

“The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.”

Faces Patience Patient Seats Halloween Dressings Impatient Dressing Up

Book:Midnight in Austenland: A Novel

Source: Midnight in Austenland: A Novel

“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.”

Should Trying Week Students Mathematics Statistics Engineering Impatient Thrust Symbolism

Author:Eric Temple Bell

“Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.”

Ifs Inspirational Change Leadership Leader Progress Future Burning Fascinated Status Quo Restless Making Changes Impatient Dissatisfied Better Future Friction Ifs And

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“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.”

Men Heart May Moving Fall Force Waiting Process Inspiring Watches Tree Fruit Length Lap Spoil Impatient Ripe Pears Ripening

Book:Conversations With Lincoln

Source: Conversations With Lincoln

“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.”

Men World Soul Spirit Artist Principles Creative Duty Revolution Function Shakes Terrified Restless Impatient Pillars Complacent Sleepers Creative Spirit Spirit Of Life

Author:Norman Bethune

“Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.”

Knows Want Done Shows Mines Faults Yesterday Impatient Neat Things Done Tidy Organised Neat And Tidy

Author:Alan Shearer

“Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.”

People Long Enough Jobs Young Dancer Anxious Impatient Grind Get Ahead Older People

Author:Anna Neagle

“The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I’m also reminded of James Lee Burke’s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.”

Years Heart Book Next Language Rich Metaphor Delight Brilliant Prose Zero Leaving Me Impatient Luminous Kim Ground Zero

Author:Rick DeMarinis

“If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.”

Ifs Knows Speak Causes Water Sweet Bitter Cups Be Patient Impatient Spills Jars Calvary

Book:If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?

Source: If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?

“Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.”

Jobs Friendship Grew Comfort Impatient

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.”

Waiting Imagine Timeless Impatient

Author:R. S. Thomas

“There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.”

Trying Humans Play Natural Psychology Position Boring Tendencies Exploits Impatient

Author:Pal Benko

“Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.”

Firsts Said Light Funny America Time Turns Nations Periods Green Usa Traffic Signals Horns Impatient Impatience Nationality Hurrying Traffic Light Honking

Author:Jim Rohn

“One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.”

Happens Time Fighting Deals Technology Society Conditions Effects Emotional Expression Solutions Crisis Response Western Things Happen Buttons Quarrels Reliance Impatient

Author:Dalai Lama

“Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.”

Intense Impatient

Book:Light Years

Source: Light Years

“Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .”

Giving Long Running Waiting Patience Perseverance Bounds Conquer Long Runs Impatient

Book:Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

“Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.”

Action Serious Bears Weakness Forgiving Faults Patient Neighbor Loved Ones Forgiven Tempted Petty Be Patient Impatient

Book:The practice of godliness

Source: The practice of godliness

“He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.”

Waiting Mercy Patient Denial Submit Be Patient Impatient

Book:Extracts from the Writings of William Gurnall

Source: Extracts from the Writings of William Gurnall

“Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.”

Trying Different Helping Method Patient Flesh Distrust Be Patient Impatient Impatience

Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.”

Thinking Kind Long Moving Team Legs Pens Formal Session Impatient Tapping Time To Move On

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.”

Impatient Hooked

Book:Wake-up calls

Source: Wake-up calls

“God is never late, we're just impatient.”

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Author:LeCrae

“Eun Gi has come back. The Eun Gi I am seeing now is not the Eun Gi I knew before. What is it that she remembers? And what is it that she forgot? What is it that she let go? And what is it that she's looking for? Even though Eun Gi has come back, I am still waiting for that kid. I won't get exhausted, won't get anxious, and won't get... impatient.”

Stills Kids Remember Waiting Seeing Letting Go Anxious Exhausted Impatient Gis

Author:Ma-Roo

“One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.”

Oneself Impatient

Book:Letters to an American Lady

Source: Letters to an American Lady

“When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.”

Knows Watches Strange Clock Cosmic Timing Impatient Calendars Wrists Suggesting Omniscient Wrist Watches

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

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

Matter Done Great Work Impatient

Book: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.

Source: 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.

“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.”

“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.”

Two States Next Hours Party Half Morning Fields Highest Horse Prison Shoes Miles Hills Midst Jail Impatient Errands Huckleberry

Author:Lysander Spooner

“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.”

Thinking Way Giving Mind Stills Asks Answers Cases Missing Give Me Hearing Anxious Bloody Impatient Marry Me Will You Marry Me Tell Me You Love Me

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“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.”

Ifs Way Needs Problem Air Arms Gun Endless Nonsense Texas Vessel Impatient Escaping Parades Inconvenience Bribe Nuisance Reverie Inspection Texan Gunpowder Concise

Book:Dreadnought

Source: Dreadnought

“First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.”

Firsts Imagine Food Breakfast Honey Gorgeous Impatient Grit Squirrels Combs Flapjacks

Author:Truman Capote

“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?”

Important Care Artist Powerful Genius Inspired Passionate Available Driven Hungry Obsessed Remarkable Who Cares Impatient Competent Default Provocative

Author:Seth Godin

“I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.”

Done Certain Liberty Taken Standing Breaths Wave Impatient Physicality

Author:Cy Twombly