Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

You can't just stick with something that doesn't work.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

Sometimes you get in life something you don't like... you have to do something different.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

If what you're doing isn't working, change it.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.