Noel Coward Quotes

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

Oh yeah, waiting sucks.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

I am very impatient.

No crowd ever waited at the gates of patience.

Patience is something that, as a young man, I didn't have - when waiting for parts to arrive or waiting for people to behave as I wanted them to.

It takes an awful lot to get me cross.

Let's say your child spills his or her milk, and it's the only milk you have left, and it seems you're at the end of your rope, just remember: that milk is already spilled. There is no sense in making a sad situation more stressful.

I don't get angry easily, but we all have our moments.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

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

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.