Impatient Quotes - Page 2

• What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Character, Ideas, Singing

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• 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.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Plunge, Precipice

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.398, Broadview Press

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• Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Time, Light

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 06, 2013

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• It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.

  Mark Van Doren

  Artist, Thinking, Years

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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  Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

  Paulo Freire

  Learning, Hopeful, Inquiry

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

  William Gurnall

  Waiting, Denial, Patient

  William Gurnall (2008). “Extracts from the Writings of William Gurnall”, p.96, Scripture Truth

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• Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

  Frances O'Grady

  Eye, Cutting, Focus

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• Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.

  Simone Berteaut

  Memories, Littles, Vivid

  Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.

  Drake

  Strong, Drinking, Humble

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• Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

  James Salter

  Intense

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.123, Vintage

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

  John Whisenant

  Moving, Impatience

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• Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

  Rama Swami

  Art, Men, Meditation

  Swami Rama (1977). “Freedom from the Bondage of Karma”, p.73, Himalayan Institute Press

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• Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Friendship, Jobs, Comfort

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (1849), 1959.

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• Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Beautiful, Claims, Diabolical

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• Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

  George Crabbe

  Strength, Strong, Anger

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.52

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• Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

  Lucan

  Loyalty, Thrones, Dominion

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• I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

  John P. Kotter

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Giving, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.115, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

  Peter Diamandis

  Meaningful, Tired, Differences

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• People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Giving, Mind

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• I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing to the growth of Presbyterianism. The blasphemy of the five points of Calvin, and the impossibility of defending them, render their advocates impatient of reasoning, irritable, and prone to denunciation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Ideas, Growth

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.358

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• The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds, waiting, never in a hurry, giving their time to them. The Bauls say, "Everything happens at its right time, everything happens in its own season. Wait, don't be impatient, don't be in a hurry. All hurry is greed, and all hurry is a subtle fight." That which is going to happen will happen. Whenever it is going to happen it will happen; you need not fight existence. You can surrender, you can trust.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Flower, Fighting

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

  Tommy Bolin

  Wish

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