False Sense Of Control Quotes

#1. When we give over our (false sense of) control, and just allow, each change and each new experience becomes less of a worry and more of an exciting new adventure. It can be likened to awaiting Christmas (or birthday) morning as a child: Anticipation of unwrapping a beautiful new gift.

Camille Lucy

#2. We've all got our own brand of problems. You can be pitiful or powerful. Take your pick.

Joyce Meyer

#3. I was going to have to take each step forward in ignorance. But then, perhaps I always had. Perhaps any sense of control had been false, or based on a false understanding.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#4. The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

Pat Paulsen

#5. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger

#6. I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.

Paul Keating

#7. Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.

Eric Liu

#9. Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt.

Ayn Rand

#10. As the dawn comes up like thunder.

Rudyard Kipling

#11. When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Brian De Palma

#12. I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

Adam Green

#13. He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

John Arbuthnot

#14. A writer always writes.

Don Roff

#15. If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

William Booth

#16. The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

James C. Collins

#17. I'm in love with 'pure' flavors, things that are natural and delicious, minimally fussed with, that showcase the season.

Graham Elliot