Pharrell Williams Quotes

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

When you're told you're going to miss out, initially, that first hour after the manager's named the team, you're really disappointed. You can't imagine anything worse. But you can't show that. You've got to go out there and support the lads.

I've learned to not have expectations. If you don't expect things from anyone, you can't get let down.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

Get used to disappointment.

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they’re not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, "If you’d done that in the movie, you’d have won an Oscar, girl."

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.