#impatience

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#impatience #time #wisdom #age

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#cannot #cardinal #driven #impatience #only

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#impatience #ruin #strength #support #weakness

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. ↗

— Larry Wall

#hubris #impatience #laziness #programmer #three

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#fruit #impatience #modernity #equality

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now? ↗

— Megan Chance

#impatience #men #patience #men

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#case #desire #done #easiest #easiest way

LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#affectionate #common #fall-in-love #good-relationship #i-love-you

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#mass-media #superficiality #media