Wim Wenders Quotes

I will count to 10 before tweeting.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.

Sometimes it is better to delay.

There is great strength in acting boldly but there is also great strength in not acting if the time is not right.

Where Mr. McKinley was patient, cautious, tactful and a very good listener…, Roosevelt is impetuous, impatient, and wholly lacking in tact.

I try not to get too far ahead of myself.

During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.

Sometimes it's good to say no. Sometimes it's good to not act impulsively.

I try and keep it simple and wait for the right opportunity.

The biggest surprise about making a movie has got to be the wait in between takes.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

When in doubt, stand still.

Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

You shouldn't shoot at every opportunity that passes by.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

Temper your future actions.