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The superintendent walked up and said, "What are you doing?" "Oh, just looking for header material," waiting for that kudos.
It was like the waiting room in the doctor's office.
They talked about the willingness to say, "I love you" first ... the willingness to do something where there are no guarantees ... the willingness to breathe through waiting for the doctor to call after your mammogram.
Having to ask my husband for help because I'm sick, and we're newly married; initiating sex with my husband; initiating sex with my wife; being turned down; asking someone out; waiting for the doctor to call back; getting laid off; laying off people.
So it's just a question of waiting for the next one and then marveling at how we could have been so stupid as not to protect ourselves against that.
And the surprise and just the amazement of that was only overshadowed by my return to Toronto, when, in my inbox, 10 literary agents were waiting for me to talk about putting this into a book.
We're staring at everybody, waiting our turn to speak, and he leans over to me, and he says, "Jody, I'm a Buddhist monk."
I knew another young man, though, who had PH who died while waiting for one.
You don't need the 30-day waiting period.
As my physical therapist likes to say, "Every step is a tragedy waiting to happen."
I don't know if you realize this, but 90 percent of the patients on the transplant list are actually waiting for a kidney.
And I know that I have been waiting all week to tell this joke.
My best friend Shannon and my husband Shawn were waiting at the top of Hawi to drive me back to town.
If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us.
It needs a profound attentiveness and a patient waiting, a contemplative attitude and a generosity and openness to those whose experience is different from my own.
In the United States alone, 100,000 men, women and children are on the waiting list for donor organs, and more than a dozen die each day because of a lack of donor organs.
What would you get done that you're waiting to get done because you think you'll be here forever?
And imagine a bunch of kids standing in a circle and just waiting for the steel ring to be passed on.
I don't need to get emotionally attached to these things because around the corner, there is always going to be another crazy, colorful, shiny outfit just waiting for me, if I put a little love in my heart and look.
So here's my question to you: What are you waiting for?
And the police are waiting for the fire department to arrive to cut apart the vehicle to extract the body of the driver.
And so I was sitting in this restaurant, waiting for a man to come by who obviously would have some difficulty ... I don't know what I had in my mind.
Who's sitting in court waiting to see the judge?
Man: Who's waiting?
That's the equivalent of you filling up your car with gas in 1998, waiting until 2011, and now you can drive to Jupiter and back twice.
Like, when you see that progress bar, it sort of locks your attention in a tractor beam, and it turns the experience of waiting into this exciting narrative that you're seeing unfold in front of you: that somehow, this time you've spent waiting in frustration for the computer to do something, has been reconceptualized as: "Progress!
[Progress...] But once you start thinking about the progress bar as something that's more about dulling the pain of waiting, well, then you can start fiddling around with the psychology.
My clearest memory is standing in the empty hallway outside the fifth grade classrooms waiting for Vicky to come out of the bathroom, and I have a clipboard and a pen and a survey I've made up, asking about shampoo preferences, like I'm doing a study for science class or something.
And so the waiting is really the hardest part.
He had been waiting, for quite a while, to have a knee surgery and that was the letter of the famous surgery-bank checks.
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