Marguerite Gardiner Quotes

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between doing something quickly and doing it right, I often select the speedier option.

Human error is usually the result of impatience.

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

I've been described as impatient.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

Haste is of the Devil.

When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

He takes the second step before the first

Haste is blind and improvident.

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

I'm too impatient.

I'm constantly bumping and banging into things.

Famously, I'm somewhat impatient.

All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!

I believe when you rush your work, you're not thinking about what you're doing. That's when you make mistakes.

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.