The Problem of Biding Time and Waiting for "the Eruption"

The Waiting Place, from "Oh the Places You'll Go"
-Dr. Seuss

Das Problem der Wartenden
Es geschieht durchschnittlich nicht, und in allen Winkeln der Erde sitzen Wartende, die es kaum wissen, in wiefern sie warten, noch weniger aber, dass sie umsonst warten.

'The Problem of the Waiters'

as for a sudden waking up or eruption to action ---
"It does not happen ordinarily, and in all the corners of the Earth sit waiters, who hardly know, to what extent they are waiting, but know even less that they are waiting in vain."

Friedrich Nietzche, "Beyond Good and Evil" Aphorism 274