"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
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"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.“
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"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
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"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
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"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
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"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
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"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked."
-Abdus Salam
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