Impatient Quotations | Page 2

I certainly agree with those who have grown impatient with hair-splitting over legal technicalities, ... There is a basic understanding of the standard of truthfulness that the president failed to meet.

I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.

He played better and overall he looked a lot better than he did against Forest Grove. He was impatient and looked nervous (against Forest Grove), but in this match he had better footwork and was relaxed.

For our basketball team, it was a tale of two halves. In the first half, our guys were very, very impatient on offense. We didn't have the ball movement and the player movement we needed to have. We had good ball movement and player movement and we shot 57 percent in the second half. If we would have played similar to that and rebounded like we did in the first half, it would have been a different game. We couldn't put it all together.

To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.

I am an incredibly impatient person.

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

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

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

Their length and their size bothered us. We were too impatient and settled for too many outside shots.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

I was always very...impatient about showing my paintings to people.

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.

I am a very impatient director.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

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

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

Surprised by joy -- impatient as the windI wished to share the transport.

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

Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.