Joseph Hall Quotes

How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

I start a picture and I finish it.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Genius is eternal patience.

Stay true to your vision/dream. There's something to be said for just staying at what you are trying to achieve well past the point everyone else gives up.

I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.

When I was younger, I'd get very invested in things. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you've got to love the process of digging.

I have to be patient, keep performing, and be consistent.

One piece of advice I often give young singers, including my son Vijay, is to not get sidetracked from their primary duty of learning music. This is the age of marketing and hard sell. Everybody wants instant results. But no amount of hard sell will prop you up if you don't hone your craft.

Sport's about patience and keep working no matter the outcome.

Fishermen and coaches have one thing in common: both need to be very patient.

Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.

When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.

The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

Every bees hony is sweet.

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

He that staies does the businesse.