Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Don't get impatient when it takes too long."
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Impatient
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George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others."
George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
Dennis Green
American Football Coach
"Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that."
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher, Writer
"The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly."
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"Old people are often impatient, but for what?"
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"One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself."
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"There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge."
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"That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer."
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"I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted."
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"Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you."
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"Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust."
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"It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over."
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"I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown."
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"People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside."
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"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."
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