David Gerrold Quotes

My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

Surrender is working with what happens.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Change is not threatening.

The changes were inevitable and one has to accept them gracefully

Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening.

Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.

Give up the thought that you have control. You don't. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.

I love and embrace change.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

When something hits you, you better go with it.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.