Jonathan Nolan Quotes

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

If you put in the time, you’ll see the rewards.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It'll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).

Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.