Arsene Wenger Quotes

Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.

No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

I am an incredibly impatient person.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

For me, my lack of patience in real life - I have always had very little patience. It's been very much my downfall in life. But having a child puts it in perspective. Very quickly you're like, "Oh, I need to learn what patience is."

To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.