Steven Soderbergh Quotes

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

I understand that people talk, and frankly, I can't control that. There's no point in getting upset over a thing that you can't control. You just have to let it go.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.