Impatient Quotes

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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant. — John Banville
We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long… — James Buchan
When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day? — George Carlin
I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom… — Lynda Carter
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made… — William Ellery Channing
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient. — Robin Cousins
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami
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
Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong. — Drake
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… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Rajneesh
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… — Peter Diamandis
On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have… — John Ruskin
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,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. — Craig Raine
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who… — Paul Ehrenfest
Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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