Richard Bach Quotes

The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

The hand can be quicker than the eye, and the mouth can be quicker than the brain.

I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A rule?" "If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them.

I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

If what you're doing isn't working, change it.

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

When things change a lot, some guys handle the change better than others, but that doesn't mean the guys that take longer to get the hang of things are suddenly slow drivers!