Sitting And Waiting Quotes

• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Writing, Procrastination

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• So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

  George Gamow

  Waiting, Listening, Sitting

  "Interview with George Gamow", by Charles Weiner at Professor Gamow's home in Boulder, Colorado, April 25, 1968.

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

  Sara Zarr

  Waiting, Sitting, Kind

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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• Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

  Rumi

  Moon, Needs, Lovers

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• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Patience, Funny Inspirational, Life Changing

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

  Zoe Kazan

  Waiting, Sitting, Sitting Around Waiting

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moon, Night, Rose

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• ...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Waiting, Sitting

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1186, Dell

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• Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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• An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

  Al Pacino

  Waiting, Sitting, Actors

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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