Active Patience Quotes

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” - John Burroughs, Naturalist and Essayist ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Remember, to embody Active Patience, we must be in it for the long term.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“The more you exercise the more energy you have, the more energy you have the more clearly you think. Active Patience is calm. Exercise reduces panic and anxiety behaviour. This is the kind of behaviour that makes us feel we are in a hurry and trying to do a million different things at once.We become paralysed, and beat ourselves up for it.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“The Energy of the mind is the essence of life”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“The Energy of the mind is the essence of life” - Aristotle ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Nobody knows how long anything is going to take or whether it will be successful.By actively and proactively persevering, we can weave our threads slowly, building our stories one thread at a time. Jump and you will sprout wings. Let”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“In order for us to press on and never give up, you must let the work be the reward. Not everything will be well received, not everything will get published. There will be setbacks. We have heard it all before. It’s not the destination but the journey. You have an idea. You obviously can write. Enjoy the process, and if you can't, find ways you can.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Patience is required for the unfolding of anything. Everything that will ever exist has been created. It’s just waiting for you to sit down and do the work. Be patient with your dreams. Be patient with yourself. Amazing things will happen. The world is patiently waiting for you to give us your gift.  Experiment and find what works for you and go for it! Be active. Never stop and never give up. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Perfectionism is self -abuse of the highest order”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Working on any long-term project like a book is a test. Testing your patience is part of the game. Take it in your stride. Don't be so easily defeated. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active: it is concentrated strength.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.” - James Dean, Actor”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Fear and perfectionism take over. Judgement fills our guts. Then the ultimate disappointment―in yourself, your project, your abilities.Do you really want to be the person who couldn't follow through? Who couldn't stick it out for another six months or, god forbid, another year? ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness to it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Themes like,This year is going to be my year of being creative everyday, will help keep you on track and make you feel like you have achieved something even with the smallest of contributions. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Let The Work be the Reward  In order for us to press on and never give up, you must let the work be the reward. Not everything will be well received, not everything will get published. There will be setbacks. We have heard it all before. It’s not the destination but the journey. You have an idea. You obviously can write. Enjoy the process, and if you can't, find ways you can. Have fun with your writing. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“We must all suffer one of two things: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“We don't hope for the best. We bank on our actual efforts to take us to where we want to go. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“The active is in our heads and the patience is in the waiting. Hope accumulates and again we actively get nowhere.  Active Patience is about the real grit and hard work, however long it takes. Being aware and alert while we work and not in our time machine.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Constantly being in a delusional fantasy means you are never in the moment. Your in the time machine of your head. You live in either the past when you could have got it right,or the future when you might get that thing that is missing from your life.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“The thing about delusional fantasies is that when you get what you thought you wanted, the reality is nothing like the fantasy. We are setting ourselves up for disappointment. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Belief and delusions are incestuous siblings.” ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“By actively pursuing what you love with an unshakeable belief in yourself and your abilities, you depend on nothing but yourself. At the end of the day, you have everything you need to create exactly what you want. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Perfectionism dictates it’s all or nothing. If I fall short one day or don't create at all, my head gives me that free pass because I didn't fit the ideal.Remember, it’s an all or nothing situation. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Healthy habits that become second nature are essential for Active Patience. Energy in. Energy out. Ideas, writing and all of our creative energy are slowly and regularly released. Exercise keeps us calm, cool and collected,it releases endorphins and it builds our store of energy.”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“I fear being uncomfortable if I confront my writing. Avoidance seems easier. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing

“Mental anxiety comes from inaction. The more you don't do, the more anxiety it creates. ”
― N.C Harley, Active Patience: A Simple Guide to Productive Writing