{"quotes":[{"text":"The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.","author":"Robert Bresson","tags":["film","filmmaking","impatience"],"id":5397,"author_id":"Robert+Bresson"},{"text":"Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["future","impatience","odd-thomas","patience","success","waiting"],"id":8311,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["impatience","inspirational","reflective","thoughts"],"id":9666,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.","author":"Martin Luther","tags":["heart","impatience","patience","tribulation"],"id":11993,"author_id":"Martin+Luther"},{"text":"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bigger-picture","cookie","cute","faithfulness","figurative","foreknowledge","funny","god","hard-work","humility","humor","impatience","knowledge","literal","metaphor","misunderstanding","obedience","omniscience","patience","prayer","praying","prudence","time","timing","understanding","waiting","work"],"id":31255,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Patience is not developed by being forced to wait in long lines or for long periods of time. Patience is a decision: to sit back rather than lean forward, to shift your weight from the balls of your feet to your heels. To settle your thoughts on now, to enjoy the journey, to give something or someone time to grow.","author":"Ron Brackin","tags":["impatience","love","patience","waiting"],"id":31621,"author_id":"Ron+Brackin"},{"text":"A certain amount of impatience can be good to do the good works excessive patience delays to do, but sometimes, it is good to have a little amount of patience, for a little amount of patience can be a big antidote to a big woe of impatience.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["anger","attitude","delays","heart-issues","ignorance","impatience","inspirational","patience-and-timing"],"id":58937,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["be-happy","happiness","happy","impatience","patience","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":67505,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!","author":"Lewis Carroll","tags":["age","alice-in-wonderland","impatience","oyster","patience","wonderland"],"id":75349,"author_id":"Lewis+Carroll"},{"text":"Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["crafting","future","impatience","odd-thomas","shaping","waiting"],"id":77343,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}