Diana Quick Quotes

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.

There is no such thing as balance in life, you just do the best you can, when you can with that you've got.

I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'

I have no control of life. I have to prepare myself for any situation.

The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.