Manage To Quotes

#1. Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.

Thomas Merton

#2. To generalize is to be an idiot, said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.

C.S. Lewis

#3. To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.

Onyi Anyado

#4. Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

Andrew Tobias

#5. Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.

Alex Garland

#6. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

James Hollis

#7. You don't need to manage the clock when you score in one play.

Todd Blackledge

#8. It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom.

Naomi Wolf

#9. It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,

Jim Leyland

#10. And although God is always close, if you don't pray, you will never manage to feel His presence.

Paulo Coelho

#11. MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#12. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#13. Van Dusen emphasizes that our common conception of the mentally ill is flawed. The majority of them, he says, are not "raving lunatics" as one might think. "Most of these people have become entangled in inner processes and simply fail to manage their lives well.

Louis Proud

#14. Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

Frederick Lenz

#15. With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

Derek Fisher

#16. Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

Carl Jung

#17. Or else I may do something I'm pretty sure you'll hate me for in the mornin'." The low huskiness of his voice washed over her like a heated caress, sending shivers down her spine, and obliterating whatever defenses she'd manage to build against him.

J.M. Stewart

#18. Very well. On my love for Mencheres, I swear that I will honor both you and Leila as my true partners, and I will keep my insolence, trickiness , filthiness, and general knavery to as much a minimum as I can manage.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

David Simon

#20. It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

Christopher Fry

#21. A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Robert Benchley

#22. Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.

Joseph Jarman

#23. The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

Richard V. Allen

#24. Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

E. M. Forster

#25. The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

Michael Lee-Chin

#26. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.

Jacque Fresco

#27. It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle. p28

Donna Tartt

#28. Can't believe you're making me say this am willing to fill any role required by you i.e. buddy best buddy laborer unpaid driver unpaid gardener unpaid father of your children coat etc just tell me which and how we'll manage come home will square things with your Pa - Charlie

Helen Oyeyemi

#29. YOLO. A slogan, a rallying cry, carpe diem for the skateboarder set: You only live once. But was it true? That was the problem, wasn't it? She had never thought about it in any deep way. She hadn't had the time or inclination to speculate about other lives: this one was hard enough to manage.

Sharon Guskin

#30. I have found, without a doubt, that when I manage to get outside myself and not make myself the center, I'm always taken care of in whatever situation I'm in, even if I'm slow to recognize it. It's counterintuitive thinking on some level and not consistently easy to do.

Patrick Fabian

#31. If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

Ed Stoppard

#32. When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

David Viscott

#33. The question is ... How did a girl like Annabelle manage to talk a man like you into joining our silly little family party?"
Annabelle smiled sweetly. "I promised he could tie me up afterward and spank me.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#34. I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Carol Bartz

#35. But while God speaks truth to our hearts day by day, the enemy speaks lies to our minds constantly. And the way we manage our daily thoughts, determines which father we get our identity from.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

#36. A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.

Sunday Adelaja

#37. Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

Romano Prodi

#38. Asking big "WHY" question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result.

Pearl Zhu

#39. I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

Tony La Russa

#40. Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

John Ralston Saul

#41. Many manage to improve on the first drafts of the lives they are given. But for that they need the courage to jump off a diving board fifty meters high, blindfolded, not knowing if it is water or asphalt that awaits them below.

Alexandre Vidal Porto

#42. One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

Jeanette Winterson

#43. In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

Terence McKenna

#44. I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.

Fetty Wap

#45. I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

Andrew Bird

#46. Hi," he says. I manage to grunt in response, and his smile broadens. "Rude enough for you?"
I nod and give him a reluctant grin. Jeez, any ruder and I'd have to spank the pair of us.

E.L. James

#47. Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#48. Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.

Shawn Lukas

#49. But somehow, every time there's a natural disaster, news crews manage to track down one of these outdoorsy yahoos to interview about how the "twister came a-screamin' down the holler" and destroyed the snake farm his family had been running for generations.

Molly Harper

#50. During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

Richard Tangye

#51. Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

Don Marquis

#52. manage the community outside of the CIA. An official observed, "The CIA director managed the CIA; it was the best job in the world. Managing the IC meant going out to the NRO and sitting through a three-hour meeting about satellite specifications. So it just was not done well."3

Michael Allen

#53. I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Wayne Thiebaud

#54. His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

Arthur Golden

#55. I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

Sylvia Plath

#56. I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

Jorgen Leth

#57. I rushed us out of your parents' house because I didn't think I could manage two hours at the dinner table with everyone focused on Joe Loosey's joystick sitting in the refrigerator next to the applesauce.

Janet Evanovich

#58. Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#59. Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.

John Stumpf

#60. Some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.

Joan Didion

#61. When I feel angry, I want to say something mean, or yell, or hit. But feeling like I want to is not the same as doing it. Feeling can't hurt anyone or get me into trouble, but doing can. (Bunny from picture book)

Cornelia Maude Spelman

#62. The mandate of God to man, believers and unbelievers alike is that they should manage the earth for God.

Sunday Adelaja

#63. A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

Jack Nicklaus

#64. The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

Peter Drucker

#65. You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time. You need to develop your powers of concentration, and understand that trying to multitask will be the death of the process.

Robert Greene

#66. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Harold Holzer

#67. The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us from following in his steps today?

Philip Yancey

#68. How do they manage to go on living? ... By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

Naomi Ragen

#69. I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

Anna Held

#70. And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than they can well manage, they shall have more to do from Satan than they can withstand.

John Owen

#71. Aha!"
My chaperone looked at me like I should aha! back, but all I could manage was a quiet "ah." I made a note to ha later.

Lemony Snicket

#72. Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs,
That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Anna Akhmatova

#73. I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

Satyajit Ray

#74. Only if we manage to see the universe as a single entity, in which every part reflects the whole and whose great beauty lies precisely in its variety, will we be able to understand exactly who and where we are.
Letters agains the war: Letter from Orsigna, 2001.

Tiziano Terzani

#75. She nods, not meeting his gaze, and steps out into the evening. It is raining, of course. The umbrella now does what its owner has never been able to manage, and Miss Dark goes home.

Michael Chabon

#76. People had to manage terrible truths.

Barbara Kingsolver

#77. Broadband firms want to manage more actively the data pulsing through their conduits - their

Anonymous

#78. I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

Viggo Mortensen

#79. We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

Carolina Herrera

#80. I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

John Currin

#81. A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

Peter Senge

#82. Why are bodies so difficult to manage? Why? 'Oh, oh, look at me, I'm a body, I'm going to splurge fat unless you, like, STARVE yourself and go to undignified TORTURE CENTRES and don't eat anything nice or get drunk.' Hate diet.

Helen Fielding

#83. Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.

Alain Juppe

#84. I try to manage my time to conserve energy.

Karen Duffy

#85. Believe me, it's far more difficult to keep stoking one's anger than it is to forgive and move on."
"Ah, so that's how you manage to keep sane with Uncle Imcael.

Eresse

#86. I feel like I'm finally learning how to use Twitter, and Tweetbot has been a huge part of that. The interface is awesome, and it lets me easily manage two accounts at once.

Evan Spiegel

#87. Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.

Eric Maisel

#88. I want to keep my clients happy, and the pressure's on me as the boss to manage my three assistants and make sure that everything is getting done. There's less time for tears and more time for bossing people around.

Brad Goreski

#89. So help me, Mac, if you manage to kill me I will ruin your eternity. You will be the most miserable man to live forever.

Marshall Thornton

#90. To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.

Laozi

#91. God is looking for sincere men he could send to politics to manage politics for him.

Sunday Adelaja

#92. Power has always been held by those who manage to controls the origins of life by controlling woman's bodies.

Jenny Nordberg

#93. Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do.

Rachel Notley

#94. You don't need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes.

Pearl Zhu

#95. One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#96. I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

Charlie Hunnam

#97. We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

Keith Emerson

#98. Do you guys have sunscreen?" I ask.
"No," Scottie says. "Do we have water?"
"Did you bring any?" Alex asks.
"No," I say.
Alex pops her head up. "Did you bring snacks for us?"
"We can walk to town."
How do mothers manage to bring everything a child could need?

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#99. Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

Mark Levin

#100. Gabriel Scott might not know how to manage me, but I sure as shit am clueless when it comes to him too.

Kristen Callihan