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"Hopelessness has surprised me with patience."
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"Don't be afraid to go slow, only be afraid of standing still."
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"Waiting never makes things easier or less troublesome."
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Personal Development
"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."
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"The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do."
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"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."
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"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
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"If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs."
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"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."
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"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
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"There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man."
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"Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances."
Life
"Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us."
Will
"Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions."
Action
"When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans."
Anger
"Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence."
Intelligence
"We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order."
Control
"We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response."
Life
"Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression."
Conflict
"For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions."
Work
"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
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