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"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."
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Personal Development
"For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you."
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Personal Development
"Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them."
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Personal Development
"If you are willing to wait, you will get what you want."
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Personal Development
"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."
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Personal Development
"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."
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Personal Development
"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."
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Personal Development
"A delay want is never denial."
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Personal Development
"Don't be quick to get angry."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."
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"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else."
Technology
"Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it."
Car
"I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year."
Writing
"It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger."
Dying
"Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem."
Patience
"I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either."
Reading
"Lawyers are predators in grey worsted."
Law
"Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of."
Poetry
"American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957."
Time
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