. . . 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.
I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.
Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.
Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.
The Americans are impatient by nature.
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.
Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.
An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation. . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
Don't keep that money waiting, it get impatient.
I'm impatient sometimes.
I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.
When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now. ' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.