Donald Fagen Quotes

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.

My understanding is that change is inevitable, and it's what I do with that opportunity that really matters.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.