David Ogden Stiers Quotes

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

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

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

I was not used to criticism.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.

If you deny the fact that things are happening to you, that this is going on, whether it's negative or positive, you're just putting yourself behind the 8-ball because you're not facing it head on and dealing with it in a positive way that you've learned how to.

In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.

No matter what twists and turns your life offers you, your ability to be adaptable and flexible will help you to stay open to all of the hidden gifts that difficulty may offer.

We all deal with change differently.

I feel like I haven't done the best in environments that aren't conducive to me doing well, and I have to do that. Because times are going to get tough, and I'm going to have to let things slide off my back.

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.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

I can laugh at my own grief.

We're lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren't working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it's time to try something new.

I have had to learn and to understand that sometimes I can't be always be at my best.

There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.