Ben Vereen Quotes

I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Some people can accept the changes in life in a mature way but for most others, it is never easy.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

I've come to learn from my own experiences and those around me that it's not about survival of the fittest but about who can adapt the best to change.

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.

Evolution is a constant state. You evolve and become comfortable in situations in which you might have felt alien in the past.

You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever situation it is, just grow from it, learn from it, don't let it happen again.

I have to do a better job of learning how to adjust.

You have to break yourself down to rebuild yourself stronger.

Things in life just happen and then you make the best of the situation and you keep moving.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.

Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.