The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.
Copy Quote View & ShareAs anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Copy Quote View & ShareAs I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
Copy Quote View & ShareA show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
Copy Quote View & ShareSometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
Copy Quote View & SharePeople ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
Copy Quote View & ShareConstant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
Copy Quote View & ShareBecause I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
Copy Quote View & SharePatience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
Copy Quote View & ShareHonestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
Copy Quote View & ShareAmericans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
Copy Quote View & ShareRight-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.
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