Jeff Lindsay Quotes

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

You work with what you got.

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about.

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

"Wait and see" is no easier now than it was as a child.

GRACE: All you can do is take it.

You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

If I make my window ten days for stand-up, the conclusion is that I failed and that I'm not good at stand-up. If I make it ten years - if I just wait - the conclusion might be something totally different. I think it's so cool to do things in which you discover the malleability of your own mind.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.