Impatience Quotations

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she would say, 'Yeah, yeah, just tell me: is it good for you or bad for you?' Consequently, I think, I was always afraid to indulge in the time that you need to tell a joke, very nervous about anything that constituted an Act II.

There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

Impatience never commanded success.

I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.

My impatience, I want my impatience to carry over with the team.

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

I think American impatience has to do with the notion that we don't know what we're doing. If we could project that we are moving in the right direction, Americans are ready to be very patient.

To make it a top-down solution isn't the answer. There is this incredible sense of impatience and this incredible sense of entitlement, and I am actually scared to death. Nobody is pushing back. ... The more we centralize this, the more dangerous it gets.

To make it a top-down solution isn't the answer, ... There is this incredible sense of impatience and this incredible sense of entitlement, and I am actually scared to death. Nobody is pushing back. ... The more we centralize this, the more dangerous it gets.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

My worst quality is impatience.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

We are very conscious of the impatience of the international community,

It's more impatience than anything else. The shots we're taking aren't bad shots, but they're not comfortable shots. The girls panic when the play breaks down, and then we begin to worry or point fingers at each other which takes us out of our comfort level. Then we start missing baskets we'd normally make, and it snowballs.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Notre Dame is very difficult because the expectations and the impatience of the alums is overwhelming, ... They want it to be like it once was and I'm not sure it ever will be. He presented them with a tremendous first season (10-3 in 2002) but he never really had a quarterback who could carry the team and win for him.

The choice to elevate a much younger man might signal not so much an impatience with the current pace of development, but a willingness to make more substantive changes.

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

We weren't impatient. We just weren't moving.

Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don't understand.

All football fans, and those who might become fans, are feverish with impatience for the World Cup next summer,

The impatience of young players today is unfortunate. Sometimes the grass is not always greener. Sometimes it's better for a young person to work through some difficulty as Darnell has. Now it comes back to him twofold, tenfold maybe.

The changes seem to reflect Bill Ford's impatience with the turnaround in North America,

Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love.