Robert Conklin Quotes

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

I've learned in my life that I have to focus on the things that I can control and what I can control is what comes out of my mouth and how I respond to people.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.