Shahzia Sikander Quotes

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

I can't control what's going to happen in the future. I can't control what's going to happen in five hours. So I'm not really worried about it. I'm just focused on doing what I can at this moment.

So many things in sports are out of your control, so I really don't look too far ahead.

The important thing is to take each game as it comes.

You go year to year and you can only control what you can control.

I have always been the kind of guy who just takes it one day at a time.

In any case, I am not a great one to make plans for the future.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

You try to make the most of each day. I'm not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day - and I know that's the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term.

If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don't get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.