Orson Scott Card Quotes on Patience
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Unlike you, Wiggin, I do give the other guy a chance to learn what he's doing before I insist on perfection
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Sometimes the other side is irresistibly strong, and then the only sensible course of action is to retreat in order to save your force to fight another day.
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Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
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You frighten me when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.
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Why wont anyone ever answer my questions? Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers Well how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?
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Better to listen than speak at a time like this.
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He simply learned how to be patient. How to bide his time.
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Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else
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He doesn't care about making a good impression. He doesn't hurry to ingratiate himself with people. He takes his time sizing up a situation and then finds the least troublesome way to his goal.
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Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? -Ender's Shadow