Rachel Carson Quotes

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years at a time with $10 to $12 million in treasuries or municipals, just waiting, waiting...As Jesse Livermore said, 'The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting.'

I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.

A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

I think people get freaked out about getting married and spending 20 or 30 years sleeping with the same person, but if that's the case, don't do it. Have someone for 5 years and another person for another 5 years.

You could be in the United Nations office all night every night and still feel like you were not making a sufficient dent in the world's problems. I think the key is prioritization. But every job presents the tyranny of the inbox, of allowing the urgent to crowd out the important. So we have to have our lodestars.

If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.

If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out.

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

Always been a big heavy metal fan. I remember being 15 saying, Dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I'm 60. I'm 35 now. I think I'm going to give it one more year.

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?