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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.
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