The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.
I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.
In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.
Why wait to be memorable?
Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
Who longest wait of all surely wins.
If I see a problem (in the clubhouse), I say something right away. I don't wait two or three days.
When I'm recording, which is synonymous with writing, I'll play things over and over again until it sounds like I've got the right guitar part. Whereas I think, as the much younger player I tended to do things much more consciously. I didn't wait for the moment where inspiration might strike. That's what I do now. I wait for it to naturally start to replay itself in my mind. As I say, I don't force it. So I like to think of myself as a receiver. I'm a telephone line to who knows where, but until I hear it through that receiver, I don't usually do it. It's got to start writing itself somehow.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed. Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.
Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait. . . they are captured by those who dare to attack.
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.
She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.
You can't wait neoliberalism out, because the class war will become more consolidated; the punishing state will increase. They'll increasingly solve problems by putting more people in jail and by criminalizing all kinds of behaviors and by appealing to racist attitudes about immigrants, blacks, minorities. They'll just intensify class warfare, that's all. It'll get to the point where the true nature of the authoritarian state will be obvious.
Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.
The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.