With some patience, time, and important conversations, you can get past that initial impression and focus on driving your team forward.

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With time and patience they dry.

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But it can be done with patience, determination and taking one small step at a time.

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"Managers are so concerned about their security, so they very rarely have the time and patience to stick with young players, " he said.

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Cheesy as it sounds, I think I'll tell them that love really conquers all, and time, with a dash of patience, heals many wounds.

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Her father had been a long time dying, and Matt had lost patience with it all.

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Chelsea needed to score twice to take the game into extra time and it appeared Hazard lost his patience with Mr Morgan after the ball had gone out of play for a goal-kick.

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Chelsea needed to score twice to take the game into extra time and it appeared Hazard lost his patience with the youngster after the ball had gone out of play for a goal kick.

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Lorenzo is not exactly a rider known for his patience and, not for the first time, he is waging a war with his own ego - the result of which we may find out as soon as Donington Park next weekend.

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The entrepreneur said that the firm's long-term strategy would "still take more time, investment and patience, and I believe our efforts will be better supported by partnering with Silver Lake in our shared vision".

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"We recognize that (transformation) will still take more time, investment and patience, and I believe our efforts will be better supported by partnering with Silver Lake in our shared vision, " Michael Dell said in a statement.

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Dell has made solid progress executing this strategy over the past four years, but we recognize that it will still take more time, investment and patience, and I believe our efforts will be better supported by partnering with Silver Lake in our shared vision.

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