Eileen Ford Quotes

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

Competition helps people figure it out.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

If you have no road map, you have to create your own.

I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.

If you're good at what you do regardless of what is thrown in front of you, you will make it work.

Adversity is the mother of enterprise.

My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.

As a person, I learned that I could push myself.

But I'm the type of person who, whatever you throw at me, I can make something out of it.

What I've learned is, there's not just one way to achieve a goal. There can be obstacles along the way and it's how you learn from that that will really make you a success.

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.