So true - things can turn around quickly in a tournament. One or two good shoves and suddenly you are back in the game. A chip and a chair 
stay positive indeed!
My ring strategy is to sit with about 1/3-1/2 the max buy in and bank when I reach 4x my buy-in. Starting below the max allows me to make stress-free marginal decisions, and exploit players who get pot stuck with more chips than me because they’re priced in when I shove. Totally agree - bankroll management brings a sense of calm at the tables that I find really important to play my best.
Yeah patience is very very important as already mentioned but in the end I think this is just one of many factors. In my very opinion i think the most important factor is discipline because without discipline nothing is working and we will lose money in spots that are uncommon. Discipline is
very important to make good folds and to control bankrollmanagement. I think it’s the most crucial ingredient in Poker.
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Redboy I tend to be a very patient player, but poker is a game that likes to explore all the limits of our patience, I would say that poker is a real mental fire test, I tell you this because I have always been a very patient player. I adopted this style of play because the cards don’t usually come that often to me, not even connection with flops, they occur in very distant ways, so to be able to try to be profitable I was left with only this style of play, patience is a very important quality in poker, but poker is much more complex than that.
Hug.
Congratulations on reaching 1000 from 0, you are right, patience is very important in poker, knowing when to stop and stop playing, and lower your level.