Ted Dekker Quotes

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

I don’t care if it’s horse piss. It works!

Whatever works should be copied.

If you want things done, you need to be able to find solutions.

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

I am a practical human being. I use everything I know on every job I do.

I never intended to dance in my own work, but we did what had to be done.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

You work with what you got.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

I do not think that there is any time in our history when things were perfect. I do not expect such times in the near future either. But I think every generation has to examine what needs to be done, what belongs to its peace and proceed. And so what needs to be done will change with time depending on the conditions, whatever the conditions happen to be. And they will not be the same for generation after generation.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.

Things won’t go perfect. It’s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.