Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a ma

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. – Lord Chesterfield

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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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Find patience or it will never find you. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time – until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. – Hart Crane

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You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I dont know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it. – Adam Scott

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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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