Sniper Patience Quotes

I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. Other than that, and the fact that I couldn’t snipe if they’d paid me to, I embodied all that a sniper should be. Stealth. Grace. The patience of a panther on the prowl.

And indeed, it was not her steady hand that made Boudica the greatest sniper who had ever sighted down a target. Nor her eyes, eyes that had picked out the Captain long moments before anyone else could have even identified him as a mouse. It was that she understood how to wait, to empty herself of everything in anticipation of that one perfect moment - and then to fill that moment with death.

If intellectual capacity is a sniper’s foremost qualification, the number two trait is patience. We will take out any enemy we have to when the situation calls for it, whether that means using a rifle, a handgun, a knife, or our bare hands. Yet the sniper’s fundamental craft is not killing a person, but being able to get close enough to do so. Osman and I were on a classic sniper stalking mission: track, sneak up, observe, and disappear again, leaving no trace behind.

My men are pretty fast.” Zach was losing patience. “Really? Can they set up a sniper position in less than 30 seconds after we find one of these guys? Can they run at 75 miles per hour? Can they move faster than a literal goddamn speeding bullet?” The ERT commander didn’t respond. “Language,” Cade said, again without looking away.

The Finnish snipers claimed to be relaxed, resilient, relentless: the virtues of icy monsters. They were living embodiments of sisu. In Finnish, the word sisu describes the combined qualities of determination and resistance. How could we translate the term? “Spiritual abnegation,” “self-effacement,” “mental resistance”? In the litany of human heroism, ever since Captain Ahab set out to hunt the great white whale, the sniper has been the perfect embodiment of man fixated by a single goal.

Always trade like a sniper, not a machine gunner. Wait patiently for your target to come into view, and only then pull the trigger. Don’t take just any trade out of boredom. This is a game in which patience is rewarded.