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A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change. -- James Levine
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
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. -- Samuel Johnson
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. -- W. H. Auden
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 by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. -- William Ellery Channing
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. -- Marilyn Monroe
Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now? -- Megan Chance
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. -- George Eliot
My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart. -- George Moses Horton
I am very impatient. -- Michael Sheen
I am a very impatient director. -- Steven Spielberg
God is never late, we're just impatient. -- lecrae
Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient. -- David Coverdale
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. -- Gautama Buddha
An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person. -- Vladimir Kramnik
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient. -- Gurbaksh Chahal
Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible. -- Steve Nash
Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait. -- Jay Kay
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. -- Craig Raine
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. -- George Mason
I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite. -- Helen Mirren
People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times. -- Rohit Sharma
I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated. -- Brant Daugherty
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
I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient. -- Ryan Reynolds
I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody to move at the same pace, and that's probably not massively endearing. -- Sebastian Coe
I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight. -- Donald Glover
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. -- Henry David Thoreau
One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible. -- Rodney Collin
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection. -- Henry B. Eyring
I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit! -- Roger Bannister
I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero. -- Rita Hayworth
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. -- Chinua Achebe
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 subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. -- James Buchan
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 it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong. -- John Ruskin
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This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity. -- Matt Taibbi
I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with. -- Kirk Hammett
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more. -- Isabel Allende
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud. -- Vernon Howard
I'm impatient sometimes. -- Giancarlo Esposito
I am an incredibly impatient person. -- Mindy Kaling
The Americans are impatient by nature. -- Bui Diem
But we moderns are impatient and destructive. -- John Crowe Ransom
I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient. -- Shirley MacLaine
We weren't impatient. We just weren't moving. -- John Whisenant
I'm too impatient to use a tripod. -- Ralph Gibson
Old people are often impatient, but for what? -- Jonathan Carroll
Don't get impatient when it takes too long. -- Drake
Don't keep that money waiting, it get impatient. -- Fabolous
Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense. -- James Salter
To be impatient is to be hooked on the future. -- Gerald Jampolsky
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. -- Gene Tierney
I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer. -- Brett Hull
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself. -- C. S. Lewis
I was always very...impatient about showing my paintings to people. -- Julian Schnabel
Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you. -- Jeaniene Frost
I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown. -- Jane Austen
I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me. -- Mason Cooley
The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach. -- Hillel the Elder
By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice. -- Simone Berteaut
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. -- Bill Gates
I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it. -- Trevor Noah
Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life. -- Nancy Pearcey
There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."--Charlie Gordan -- Daniel Keyes
Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. -- Karen Armstrong
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. -- Nellie Bly
You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless. -- R. S. Thomas
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. -- Rama Swami
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. -- Baltasar Gracian
The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress. -- Idries Shah
My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn. -- Bitsie Tulloch
Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort. -- Lucan
Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort. -- Lucan
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons. -- Christopher Reeve
I'm a very impatient person. I love dancing, I love music, and I love eating life. -- Natalia Tena
Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that. -- Dennis Green
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. -- William Butler Yeats
We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly. -- Pope Francis
A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient. -- Tommy Bolin
I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted. -- Loretta Young
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant. -- John Banville
I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that. -- Lucinda Williams
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. -- Warren Buffett
You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet. -- Erin Hunter
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient. -- Robin Cousins
What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait. -- Ken Kesey
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer. -- Thornton Wilder
Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong. -- Drake
I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen. -- John Cale
I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go. -- Ciara
[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Most people don't lay the foundations correctly because they are too impatient or too greedy or too stupid ... -- Andrew Crofts
...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. -- G.K. Chesterton
I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot. -- Cherie Lunghi
A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off. -- Seth Klarman
In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times. -- Roger Federer
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. -- Craig Raine
However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness. -- Pearl S. Buck
I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person. -- Truman Capote
Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out. -- Jenna McCarthy
I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out. -- Jennifer Donnelly
Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short. -- Geoffrey Ballard
If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A. -- Gordon Ramsay
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial. -- William Gurnall
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise. -- Charles Rosen
There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position. -- Pal Benko
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up. -- Jeff Goodell
It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long. -- George Crabbe
Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . . -- Swami Vivekananda
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
Paula Abdul's really impatient to start a family. She says if she has to wait much longer she's going to go crazy-er. -- Chelsea Handler

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