Impatient Quotes
284 quotes by 248 authors
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
— Karen Armstrong
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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
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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
— John Banville
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
— Robin Cousins
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Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.
— Rama Swami
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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
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Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.
— Drake
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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…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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…
— Rajneesh
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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…
— Peter Diamandis
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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
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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
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Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
— Craig Raine
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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
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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
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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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