Ken Venturi Quotes

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.

We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available.

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.

There are things we control - but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.

You can't control everything.

Sometimes things don't happen on your timetable.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.