Dana Bash Quotes

Don't use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don't worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.

You can't juggle it all 100 percent. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to do everything.

I have had to learn and to understand that sometimes I can't be always be at my best.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments. But once you realise that things can't always go your own way, you're on the right track to being able to handle your own life.

Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.

When you have tough times, and when you learn you can't be perfect in every situation, it's hard to accept, you know, because I still do expect that. But you just have to, because, you know, it's not about the situation. It's how you deal with it. You always have a choice.

I have no control of life. I have to prepare myself for any situation.

I have always taken everything as it comes and tried to stay in good shape.

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

I don't always have to be the best. Things don't always have to be perfect.

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.