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"It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism."
"Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?"
"Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?"
"And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done."
"He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait."
"You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big."
"Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?"
"One of the truths I most deeply believe is that everything in life - everything - is energy. Within every one of us is the energy that makes the sun rise every day and keeps the planets aligned. It's there, already inside of you, waiting for you to know it. And when you tap in with that connection, that source, that miraculous energy, what I know for sure is that the universe rises up to meet you in unimaginable ways and help you create the life that you want."
"If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you."
"Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender."
"The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?"
"When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't."
"We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered."
"I'm so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it's such a big and important part of British Culture. I can't wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we'll be shooting not too far from my home town."
"Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?""
"I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly."
"There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer."
"It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them."
"I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future."
"You're never where you want to be. There's always waiting. There's always some new project that's coming down the road - some new thing you're working on, some creative direction you're wanting to explore."
