Alexandra Bracken Quotes

One of the things I learned as president is that your life is just not going to unfold the way you want it to. There will be surprises, challenges, and therefore the question is how you deal with the unexpected.

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.

I've learned how to function in chaos.

There comes a point in everybody's life where you either learn to handle things or you get handled.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

Your highs can't be too high, and your lows can't be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything.

The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.