#wait

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#i #just #me #something #takes

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. ↗

— Ellen Key

#educator #effects #future #how #light

If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that. ↗

— Salman Khan

#funding #get #happens #hire #idea

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#by the time #corner #could #end #four

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#chicago #fifteen #fifteen minutes #know #like

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #end #going #hard #interview

Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#clear #congress #constitution #dec #direction

Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it. “But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6) ↗

— Jay Rayner

#apron #courses #crucial-points #cutlery #deafening-moments

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#dumb #i #kinda #morning #next

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn. ↗

— Lawrence Korb

#damn #give #grew #kuwait