This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a
long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via fawksianfella)
Sometimes I think that all my advice to students can be boiled down to two words: Slow. Down.
(Which is a lesson I need to re-learn at least twice a day, too.)