It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'
Michael Phelps

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
Luis Bunuel

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Peter Marshall

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
Dolley Madison

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.
Britney Spears

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
Mercedes McCambridge

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward de Bono

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
Jeffrey Sachs

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.
Steven Tyler

And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Steven Tyler

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Horace Mann