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“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

People Ifs Want Inspirational Stills Ends Waiting Learning Achieve Conditions Distraction

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”

Mind Waiting Hours Learning Labor Tasks Educated Leisure Educated Mind

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.”

Ifs Long Shows School Turns Waiting Learning Judgment Stranger Enthusiasm Submit Phony Unschooling

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.”

Thinking Inspiration Able Waiting Learning Experience Patient I've Learned Right Time Be Patient Billionaire

Author:Bernard Arnault

“Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.”

Ifs Men Self Matter Time Waiting Ability Principles Learning Wise Minutes Becoming Discipline Morality Truth Is Self Discipline Preference Influential Being Wise

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.”

Happens School Opportunity Waiting Education Learning Bed Sticks Make It Happen

Author:Andrew Forrest

“The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.”

People Years Able Waiting Learning Hundred Garden Plant Cherish Pot Potatoes Herbs

Book:Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

Source: Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

“Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.”

Heart Waiting Change Learning Patience Novelists Be Patient

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.”

Time Opportunity Waiting Decision Learning Teaching Circumstances Ideals Best Opportunity Life Opportunity

Author:Janet Erskine Stuart

“Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”

Feels Should May Important Spiritual Waiting Knowledge Learning Becoming Activity Quiet Empty Work Out Spiritual Wisdom Receiving Quietness Peace And Quiet

Author:Rodney Collin

“Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS/2 days.”

Ifs May War Reason Philosophy Running Law Waiting Learning Fields Industry Understood Built Improvement Programming Gates Microsoft Obsolete Hardware Bail Ibm Moore's Law

Author:Jerry Pournelle