Ken Blanchard Quotes

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

It's difficult when you want it all.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

All simulators are going to be different compared to reality, that's how I see it.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.