Henry James Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

• The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.

  Henry James

  Fear, Waiting, Risk

• Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

  Henry James

  Waiting, Different, Might

• If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

  Henry James

  Waiting, Feels, Ifs

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.280, Delphi Classics

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