Waiting Quotes - Page 167

I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.

Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now, buy a suit.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.

I work in the same style as classic landscape photographers. You find the right perspective, and then you wait until the light is right. I do the same. I find the right location, and then I wait for the sound, the atmosphere to be right, and for the space to be revealed.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.

No matter what you're doing, you're never 100 percent about anything. Every choice is always accompanied by a certain amount of worry or doubt. Until it reaches a certain threshold, you don't act on it; you just sort of carry it with you, and wait to see if it reaches the threshold when you should act. Otherwise, you just become one of those worrywarts, a nervous Nellie who isn't very helpful.

Wait, I kinda do love you.

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.