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We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.

Isaiah Thomas

Athlete · American · b. 1961

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

Jerry Kramer

Athlete · American · b. 1936

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

Marion Ross

Actor · American · b. 1928

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Ilie Nastase

Athlete · Romanian · b. 1946

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

James J. Corbett

Athlete · American · 1866 – 1933

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Earl Monroe

Athlete · American · b. 1944

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Chuck Tanner

Athlete · American · b. 1929

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

Robert Atkins

Celebrity · American · 1930 – 2003

The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

Shane Warne

Athlete · Australian · b. 1969

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Tyrone Power

Actor · American · 1958 – 1958

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Bowie Kuhn

Athlete · American · 1926 – 2007

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Kenny Loggins

Musician · American · b. 1948

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Ernie Banks

Athlete · b. 1931

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Wil Wheaton

Actor · American · b. 1972

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

Aaron Spelling

Producer · American · 1923 – 2006

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

Charlie Hunter

Musician · American · b. 1967

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Paul Gleason

Actor · American · b. 1944

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Lana Turner

Actress · American · 1920 – 1995

But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.

Daniela Hantuchova

Athlete · Slovakian · b. 1983

I have learnt to be even more patient.

Roger Federer

Athlete · Swiss · b. 1981

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

Alan Thicke

Actor · Canadian · b. 1947

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

Bruce Hornsby

Musician · American · b. 1954

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

Writer · French · 1694 – 1778

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

Poet · French · 1821 – 1867

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell

Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napoleon Hill

Writer · American · 1883 – 1970

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

Author · American · 1880 – 1968

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Lord Chesterfield

Statesman · British · b. 1694

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

George Washington

President · American · 1732 – 1799

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

Writer · English

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

Novelist · French · 1869 – 1951

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oriana Fallaci

Journalist · Italian · b. 1929

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Elihu Root

Lawyer · American · 1845 – 1937

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland

Author · American · 1900 – 1978

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Peter Marshall

Clergyman · Scottish · 1902 – 1949

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Robert Wise

Producer · American · 1914 – 2005

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

Journalist · American

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Cesar Chavez

Activist · American · 1927 – 1993

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

William Penn

Leader · English · 1644 – 1718

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Phillips Brooks

Clergyman · American · b. 1835

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

Poet · French · 1621 – 1695

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Herman Hesse

Author · German · 1877 – 1962

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Sigmund Freud

Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Hal Borland

Author · American · 1900 – 1978

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton

Poet · American · b. 1912

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Jean Kerr

Playwright · American · 1923 – 2003

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