Quotes About Staying Sane

#1. It's not exactly surprising that staying sane is useful when trying to hit performance markers.

John Scalzi

#2. Madness--that's all they have, after working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. Going mad is their only way of staying sane.

J.G. Ballard

#3. The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

Philippa Perry

#4. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

George Orwell

#5. To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

Maxine Kumin

#6. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter

#7. To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

Marc Andreesen

#9. It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that surrounds us, and storing them for future readers.

Alberto Manguel

#10. Great grace, great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. It's always too soon to quit! Believe in the goodness of God practically speaking.

Eric C. Maynard

#12. The days diminished. Light lasted just six hours, and it was a feeble light. Mabel organized her hours into patterns - wash, mend, cook, wash, mend, cook - and tried not to imagine floating beneath the ice like a yellow leaf.

Eowyn Ivey

#13. If I even imagined someone talking to my husband too close, I would beat the crap out of them.

Khloe Kardashian

#14. said, "What gets measured, gets managed." In the case of our thoughts, what gets observed, gets managed.

Martin Meadows

#15. Your presence we will always miss, but the memories I will treasure, we had some happy times dear friend knowing you was a gift of pleasure.

Susan Smith

#16. My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.

Janeane Garofalo

#17. I nearly bit one of them, and yadda yadda yadda, we learned they had nothing to do with the color change." "You can't yadda yadda yadda nearly biting a fairy," Paige said.

Chloe Neill

#18. You laughed either to keep yourself sane or because you'd given up on staying that way. Either way, you laughed.

Hugh Howey

#19. So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

Mark Twight

#20. I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.

Jack Dangermond

#21. I'll be fine. My fear will keep me warm."
She laughed. I think it was the first time I'd heard her laugh, and I looked at her in surprise.
"You're funny," she said.
"Oh yeah, I'm a laughing riot.

Andrew Klavan