When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- When your ideal outcome is impossible, accept a compromise.
- In plain terms
- Take what is available if you cannot get what you want.
- What can you take from it?
- Adapt to reality instead of waiting for perfection.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are you holding out for too much?
Another view
Accepting less can sometimes be a failure of vision.
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