William Stephenson Quotes

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Human beings will make the best out of any situation.

I can pretty much take anything that comes at me.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

I think, as an outsider, you are ready to deal with whatever comes your way.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

If something doesn't go your way, then look for another way. If something's broken, fix it.

I think I am pretty resilient and resourceful.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Every situation I have ever been in I have been trained for, and I dealt with it to the best of my abilities.