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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
"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."
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Personal Development
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"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
Power
"But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom."
Wisdom
"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."
Mortality
"I listen to music constantly while writing."
Music
"Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes.""So God uses wicked people as his tools?""God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses.""So, in the long run, God always wins?""Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable."
Faith
"Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly."
Psychology
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
Change
"It isn't the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn't want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive."
Humanity
"Because human nature never changes."
Philosophy
"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
Military
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