John Maynard Smith Quotes

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.

One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

If the careers want me, let them find me.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

I've had boyfriends complain, "Wait, you don't want to see me?" No, I don't. I just want to hang out by myself. So screw off.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

I want to know living love. And I don't want to wait for it.

I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour waiting for it to resolve, waiting for the geometry of a theme to be exactly what you want them to be. That was my process to get photos.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation