Adriana Trigiani Quotes

If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.

You can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

I'm the kind of person that if I'm not getting something that I need from somewhere. I don't cry about it, I'm like OK I'm going to go here and find what I need.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

When I get it into my head that I want to do something, I do it.

You have to make it happen.

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

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

I won't sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.

I try to lead. I do not follow.

I didn't want to be a man of words but of action.

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

I make my own opportunities no matter what.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

Don't rely on leaders to do things you're equipped to do yourself.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems - you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself - and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

She doesn't ever worry, if she wants it she'll get it on her own