Quotes About Relinquishing Control

#1. She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Lewis Carroll

#2. Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

Ali MacGraw

#3. All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

Maynard Webb

#4. First, let me finish. Then interrupt.

Brian Spellman

#5. Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want
when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.

Tamera Alexander

#6. There are few sharper contrasts in China between the desire to find harmony and the instinct to impose order.

Jonathan Watts

#7. That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

David Platt

#8. The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. Out of the nameless and unfathomed weavings of billion-footed life, out of the dark abyss of time and duty, blind chance had brought these two together on a ship, and their first meeting had been upon the timeless and immortal seas that beat forever at the shores of the old earth.

Thomas Wolfe

#10. One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.

Nick Mason

#11. Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator

Alex Grey

#12. It was that sleep itself - the act of closing the eyes and relinquishing control of her consciousness - was something she was temperamentally unsuited to.

Clive Barker

#13. Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.

Teri Hatcher

#15. For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Neil MacGregor

#16. We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

Larry Wall

#17. No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your love - they have to earn it.

An Na

#18. I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

K.d. Lang

#19. DAY 1 Put on the Whole Armor (Ephesians 6:11) Before each specific assignment

Stormie O'martian

#20. Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

Roger Harrison

#21. I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

Marty Robbins