The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. Anna Neagle Read Quote
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes. Anna Neagle Read Quote
But the delights of solitude don’t only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. Anna Neagle Read Quote
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for. Anna Neagle Read Quote
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out! Anna Neagle Read Quote
Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do. Anna Neagle Read Quote
I have always found it difficult to wait for things – whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains. Anna Neagle Read Quote
