Ricky Skaggs Quotes

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

When life is too much, roll with it, baby.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

We have to be prepared for change.

You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.