<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Patience is active when it protects a process... > Patience is active when it protects a process whose mechanism remains sound. Waiting without measurement, preparation, or revision is not patience; it is delay without an operating theory. **Source:** [[livestreams/Patience, Trajectory, and the Long Arc of Progress - Workbook|Patience, Trajectory, and the Long Arc of Progress]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Patience is active when it protects a process whose mechanism remains sound. Waiting without measurement, preparation, or revision is not patience; it is delay without an operating theory.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-patience-active-protects-without-operating-theory ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->