Alex Higgins Quotes

I'm very impatient. I always want more.

No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Impatience is a virtue.

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

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

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

Haste is of the Devil.

We like things to happen very quickly; it’s our lifestyle.

There is no time for normal General Staff procedure. Speed is essential and your efforts should be informal.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

I don't like to get too far ahead of myself.

I am terrible. When I buy stuff, I want it straight away. If it says two to three weeks delivery - no way. I will find somewhere that will deliver it that afternoon.

I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.

I'm very impatient.

I'm deeply impatient. If I can't park directly in front of somewhere, I go home.

I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me.

I am an incredibly impatient person.