Merle Haggard Quotes

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

You have to be patient and bide your time and hopefully your chance will come.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

The right timing is not always our timing.

We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.

You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you're going to earn your minutes

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

Never miss a chance to shut up

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.