Don't Wait Around For Someone Quotes

#1. Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

Lena Dunham

#2. Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

Frederick Lenz

#3. It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

Linda Fiorentino

#4. You're gorgeous," she said. Her hands slid around to flatten themselves against his chest. "You know that right?"
"And I just don't care," she says
"Isabelle, I don't think-Wait, What?

Cassandra Clare

#5. Enjoy what you have this moment. Don't wait around for something that might not happen.

Xena Thornton

#6. Remember that you must behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Don't stop it. Is it not yet come? Don't stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you.

Epictetus

#7. If I want to know how I'm doing at work, I don't wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.

Chandra Wilson

#8. Most teenagers couldn't wait to turn eighteen. Would I even be around by then? A new goal of mine, don't die. -Trinity

Angela McPherson

#9. I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

Edward Norton

#10. Once people show me who they are? I believe them. I don't wait around for them to keep beating me down.

Alison Perry

#11. Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

Herschel Walker

#12. I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Diana Ross

#13. Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first.

Joyce Meyer

#14. I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

David Bailey

#15. You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don't. They never can. There is no perfect. There's just different. But different can be wonderful.

Sarah Jio

#16. Don't wait for someone else's magic. Pick up your own want and start waving it around.

Buffy Stainte-Marie

#17. Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.

Harold Evans

#18. It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.

Anne Stuart

#19. You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.

William J. Clinton

#20. But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future,

Gina McCarthy

#21. I've seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they're not ready for you, some people don't like that.

Paul Dano

#22. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don't think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.

Jason Fried

#23. I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

Wanda Sykes

#24. I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.

Benjamin Stone

#25. Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Muhammad Yunus

#26. When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.

Patti Callahan Henry

#27. You must watch and wait, Branza, to see what powers you have and don't have. It is not like home. We ruled there. Everything fell into place around what we wanted. Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires.

Margo Lanagan

#28. Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

#29. When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you." A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine.

Nouman Ali Khan

#30. Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.

Vikrmn

#31. Don't loaf around and wait for inspiration. Light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it, you will get something that looks remarkably like it.

Jack London

#32. I can't do this, I can't just be a wife. I don't understand how anyone does it - there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you. Either that or look around for something to distract you.

Paula Hawkins

#33. Don't wait around waiting for God to do something that He's already given you the power to do.

Joyce Meyer

#34. Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

Peter Farrelly

#35. So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

Joel Edgerton

#36. He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?

Alyson Noel

#37. A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.'

Gilbert Gottfried

#38. I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing 'Gunsmoke.'

Suzanne Pleshette

#39. I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.

Rose McGowan

#40. Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.

Ken Goldberg

#41. Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

George Mason

#42. I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

Lukas Haas

#43. The first thing I would like to share with you
here is that when you help people, you don't wait
around until they say thank you because you didn't
help them so you can hear appreciation.

Nouman Ali Khan

#44. What did one do around here?
Nothing. Wait for summer to end.
What did one do in the winter, then?
I smiled at the answer I was about to give. He got the gist and said, 'Don't tell me: wait for summer to come, right?

Andre Aciman