Edward Sapir Quote

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.


International communication: a symposium on the language problem (ed. 1931)


Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves...

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves...

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves...

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves...