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"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right."
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"Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain."
Grief


"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."
Patience


"Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?"
Strategy


"Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible."
Discovery


"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."
Perception


"What you practice too often, you use without thinking."
Discipline


"Image perception makes a big difference. That's one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff - that's necessary. But the image that you project is also key. Don't forget that."
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"He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that."
Identity


"In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so."
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