Scott Reed Quotes

It is best to live however one can be.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

If you find yourself in a position you would rather was not there, you have to make it work.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

We must do as we may when we may not do as we would.

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

You got to adjust to how your life is.