Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

So we draw a picture of what we want as a team and will follow that - understanding that sometimes you might have to do a new wall or the kitchen is not like that and you have to change it. But the idea is to follow the plan.

Growing up not being the biggest guy around, you learn different ways of playing tennis. I've learned to adapt.

I've learned to compensate for my small size.

When you're smaller, you kind of learn how to do other things. You have to work a little bit harder.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.

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.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

"I guess I'm okay with that. But it's not going to be easy for you. They don't have a lot of fishing or mudding around here." "I figured." "And not a lot of beach volleyball, either. Especially in January." "I guess I'll have to make some sacrifices." "Maybe if you're lucky, we can find you some other ways to occupy your time."

First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

I came from a Sorkin-like project in the sense that there was no freedom to change a line, which, in a weird way, is its own freedom because you're living within that structure and know this is what it is. You just adjust. Every project has its own personality.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

it's amazing what you can get used to.

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.