Eva Mendes Quotes

It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it.

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.

There's times where I go off the rails like anybody else. For the most part, I try to keep it, 'Hey, this is what we're dealt and this is the situation, so let's make the best of it.' Keep a positive attitude.

If I make a mistake, I just shrug it off and carry on.

I think if something's wrong with me, I just kind of work through it. That's my mentality.

I'm very good at compartmentalising my life. I did motor-racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I did power-boat racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I had such a good run at the BBC. I had a hell of a CV with arguably the greatest broadcasting organisation in the world. But I've never missed it since.

In the past, I tried to put on a brave face and smile after a defeat, but then it would backfire in training, and I'd get frustrated. Now I just embrace it, let it out, and then, two days later, I'm back in training and ready for the next game.

I just move forward and not worry about the things I can't control.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.