Theodor Reik Quotes

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all.

'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.

The way in which you accomplish your goals and help your customers needs to be very flexible depending upon how those customers are reacting in real time.

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find 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.

If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.

Life is a weird thing because it puts roadblocks in front of you, sometimes you gotta go through it, sometimes you gotta go around it, sometimes you gotta take a pause and look back at what you're gonna do, have a plan.

Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Goals have to be realistic and flexible.

You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.