Patience is a virtue, impatience its classically ugly twin brother. Impatience makes wise people make foolish mistakes. Impatience is like trying to eat a fruit that cannot be eaten ... instead of allowing it an opportunity to grow and share its benefits and value when it does. Says Rodney Collins ... One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.