Joseph Joubert Quotes

As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

There is magic in patience, you know.

Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

There is always time to take more time.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!