Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

Kitten, you still haven’t told her? Blimey, what are you waiting for?” “The Second Coming of Christ!” I snapped.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

I'm kind of impatient. I like to see things realized and not just work on a project for three years and wait, wait, wait. I try to keep myself busy.

Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

I had an assistant for a hot minute, because that was offered to me. And literally, after a day I was like, "I don't like this. I don't like someone else making the decisions that I should be making." I'm very busy, yes, but I'm not so busy that I can't make my own decisions. I want people to contact me directly about what time I'm being picked up in the morning.

I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

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.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?

I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

I hate patience. Slows everything down.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any executive office, whether it's mayor, governor or president. How do you make decisions? Who do you want in the room helping you make those decisions?