Anne Northup Quotes

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

I consent to this constitution because I can expect no better.

Patience is something that, as a young man, I didn't have - when waiting for parts to arrive or waiting for people to behave as I wanted them to.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

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.

My biggest fault? I guess it's a lack of patience - not when I'm working, but when I'm not working.

What we can do is control what we can control.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.