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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.
My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power employ,
Impatient to depart.
I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.
We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.
He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.
I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
I'm a very, very impatient person when it comes to breaking news.
Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .
I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.
My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.
In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.
If you're going to invest in something over a long period of time, that you believe is important and can change the company, you have to be strategically patient and tactically impatient.
I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.
The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people's concerns.
Normally, whenever I try to photograph my mother, she is extremely impatient and will only stand for a minute and insists on knowing exactly what I'm doing.
I'm fun, ruthless, articulate, impatient, maybe a little cavalier. I'm a woman and a feminist. I'm transgender. I'm an actress, a reluctant writer, occasionally a potato-shaped model.
I am a man in a hurry. We have to work both from office and roadside. I am impatient.
I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even need a lot of makeup, so I'm usually ready in about half an hour.
I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.
My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
Sometimes I think I'm a bit impatient, and a bit more patience would help me in some cases.
I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.
I'm very strong willed and I'm very impatient as well.
Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
I had a temper problem even before I did this film, but doing 'Arjun Reddy' has made me more impatient.
I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.
I like efficient people. I'm pretty impatient, so I can't stand people who putter around.
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.
Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.
I tend to be very impatient, thinking about all the ways we can do something, my mind and hands spinning at a very fast rate.
I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
When I'm trying to get bread to prove, I am itching; I am so impatient.
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.
he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.
You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.
In relationships, particularly love relationships, people are impatient.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
