It Pays To Wait Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I do like you. You have such an interesting balance of obedience and contempt. — Amy Ewing

Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar. — C. A. Bartol

Why of your own accord postpone your real life to the distant future? Shall you wait for some interest to fall due, or for some income on your merchandise, or for a place in the will of some wealthy old man, when you can be rich here and now. Wisdom offers wealth in ready money, and pays it over to those in whose eyes she has made wealth superfluous. These — Seneca.

But some words to men and women, boys and girls alike: The quality of the work must merit the readers' time and money. Do it for yourself, but make yourself a member of your own audience. There is no other way to evaluate your own progress. — Wendy Pini

Kelly bit her lip. "Is ... is everything okay?" "Not really, but we can pretend. — Mira Grant

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot. — Robert Rodriguez

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says. — George Crook

Have patience when it is really worth doing so, no matter what, and notwithstanding how hard impatience knocks at your door, and you will know patience better — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I guess all I can do is ignore her. If that fails, I have rat poison and a shovel. — Suzanne Wright

Animals ... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want. — Bruce Greenwood

When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills. — Debra Dean

There is one story about letters. A perpetually cheerful Frog pays a visit to Toad but finds Toad glum, sitting on his front porch.
"This is my sad time of day," says Toad, "when I wait for the mail to come."
"Why is that?" says Frog.
"No one has ever sent me a letter. My mailbox is always empty. That is why waiting for the mail is a sad time for me."
Then Frog and Toad sit "on the porch, feeling sad together."
Frog rescues the situation by running home, writing a letter to Toad, and sending it literally by snail mail. The little snail brings it four days later.
Even though Toad saw Frog every day, he longed for the strangeness, the otherness of a letter, for something to come from out there and address him, "Dear Toad." Is that the thrill I feel finding a letter from you in my box? The address of a friend is made into a physical fact and every letter an artifact of the otherwise invisible communion of friendship. — Amy Andrews

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities. — David Shi

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. — Jeannette Rankin