Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I have not yet learned to keep still.

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

They also serve who only stand and wait.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Patience is also a form of action.

I always try to stay quiet and calm.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

When in doubt, stand still.

Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.

Above all, what I learned from my Sensei was how to wait. I believe I learned the meaning of waiting on one foot. If I understand anything in this life, it is how to wait. It is not an answer. But for me it is everything.

Silence was never a wrong answer.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

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.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

The night is still waiting.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.