P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

Unless we make the change ourselves, nothing is going to change.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted

Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action.

If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

I've learned that I have to be more aggressive in that position, when I'm leading the match.

If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

That's my nature: I'm going to be aggressive, but it has to be calculated.

You have to make your own destiny.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.