Frank Gehry Quotes

You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.

I don't prepare to sit on the bench, I prepare to play because you never know what is going to happen.

I can't decide the results, but I can still put my best foot forward and try the best I can.

I started every match knowing that this could be my day. It's like in life; you can have a bad business idea, but then you have a new one the next day and you just go for it.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

I love meeting life halfway.

View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

Keep hustling, something good will happen.

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.