"A lot of patience, cool-headedness, determination and resilience is needed," Mr. Barak said at a memorial service for Yitzhak Rabin, the former prime minister.
(To a girl in high school who said she was having trouble finding a boyfriend because she was overweight and "I intimidate boys because I am funny and independent," Mr. Apatow advised patience. "Cool people will like you for who you are," he assured her).
But anyone who witnessed the melee at half-time, Mourinho's ejection to the stands and the sheer histrionic mayhem of the Real-Barça first leg will have worked out by now that this epic rivalry is not characterised by patience and cool calculation.
It's when the small things become a mortal risk, however, that citizens begin to lose their patience and their cool.
Since taking over the Fed in February 2006, Mr. Bernanke's hallmark has been a cool patience and willingness to stick with his economic game plan even when it clashed with the expectations on Wall Street.
Entertainment Weekly writer Ken Tucker said the episode placed Parks and Recreation "squarely in the tradition of great gentle-hearted sitcoms" that treated its characters "with equal affection, and has relatively little patience for irony and cool detachment".
(How unfair is that?!) Yes, a big part of parenting is just trying not to lose it; and by "it," we mean our cool, our patience and our marbles.
The delay, more than two months, suggests a cool degree of patience, but that may not be entirely accurate.
Patience allows you to remain cool and rational -- to think clearly -- under stress, to take the foibles and annoying behaviors of others in stride and perhaps even find them amusing.
Food that cooks in a trice at mid-day can test ones patience to the breaking point on a cool night.
Finally, when my patience had run dry I wanted to cool it with a jack and ginger ale.
