James Durbin Quotes

You have to approach life every morning either as a victim or as an opportunity. That is a big psychological difference between liberalism and conservatism

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Life can be either of two things: What it makes of you or what you make of it.

There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Ultimately, anything is just what you make of it.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Change is debilitating when it is done to us. Change is exhilarating when it is done by us.

I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you - magic all around you - no matter what situation you're in.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

We create our own destiny.

The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.

I totally believe in opportunities. I don't believe in accidents. I just don't.

Your reaction to a situation determines whether it will be positive or negative. If you're determined to label a situation positive, no matter how it appears, the result MUST be positive. If you label something negative, that MUST be your experience. It's never too late to change a situation because you have an unlimited supply of positive sticky labels! Your life is always your call!

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.