Rick Danko Quotes

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

You cannot escape anxiety … but I have faith that you will rise above your fears.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

I'm not a big worrier because I just think stress is just not a good thing... it's just like, what's the point?

I always look at the worst situations and try and figure out how I can make them better. Let today's garbage be better than yesterday's, is my motto.