In plain words
Waiting well is not doing nothing. Patience is one of the ways you get things done.
Where these words come from
- 50% sureLots of sources credit Auguste Rodin with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Attributed; earliest located citation is Leonard William Doob, Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection (1990), p. 124 — a posthumous compilation, so held at likely.
- collected in Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection (Leonard William Doob, 1990), p. 124
- remembered as Rodin's word on the slow, deliberate side of a sculptor's work
