Sadaharu Oh Quotes

I have not yet learned to keep still.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

Silence is so accurate.

I aspire only to silence.

I love silence.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Find patience in the breath of life.