Sitting And Waiting Quotes

• So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

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  George Gamow

  Waiting   Listening   Sitting  

  "Interview with George Gamow", by Charles Weiner at Professor Gamow's home in Boulder, Colorado, April 25, 1968.

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• Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

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  Rumi

  Moon   Needs   Lovers  

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• Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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  Stephen King

  Inspirational   Writing   Procrastination  

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• An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

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  Al Pacino

  Waiting   Sitting   Actors  

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

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  Franz Kafka

  Suicide   Suicidal   Solitary Life  

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• Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

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  Zoe Kazan

  Waiting   Sitting   Sitting Around Waiting  

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• All things come to those who wait.

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  Violet Fane

  Patience   Funny Inspirational   Life Changing  

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational   Life   Wisdom  

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Good things come to those who wait.

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  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational   Funny   Patience  

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

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  Sara Zarr

  Waiting   Sitting   Kind  

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• Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

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  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs   Writing   Thinking  

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• Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

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  Shams Tabrizi

  Moon   Night   Rose  

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• ...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

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  Diana Gabaldon

  Men   Waiting   Sitting  

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1186, Dell

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