Handle Quotes - Page 8

• To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

  Pat Steir

  Dancer, Ballet, Needs

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• I'm just trying to get my body in shape so that I can handle it. It's a very physically demanding thing. I've been doing it for 16 years, so I know what I'm going into now. I'm trying to stay calm and not panic.

  Andrew Bird

  Years, Stay Calm, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

  George Bernard Shaw

  West, Rebecca, Pens

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• Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Self, Trying, Done

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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• I try to leave it in Christ's hands and trust that He knows the situation. He knows the position I'm in. He wouldn't have put me in this position if I couldn't handle it. That's what keeps me going, knowing that He's right there. I can call on Him whenever.

  John Salmons

  Hands, Knowing, Trying

  "A conversation with Sacramento Kings guard John Salmons". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

  Lauren Bacall

  Doe, Upside Down, Hell

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• I'm a big fan of the game. Seeing these young guys play at the level that they are, I just wish I was 22, 23 years old so I can handle the game the way they do.

  Jason Kidd

  Play, Years, Games

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• Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Animal, Brain, Groups

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• It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure.

  Jason Bay

  Tests, Persons

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• The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.

  Mark Teixeira

  Opposites, Red, Kind

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• I am getting more mature and can handle the pressure better.

  Yani Tseng

  Pressure, Mature

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• Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

  Gordon Allport

  Past, New Experiences, Events

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• People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Principles, Frozen

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• I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.

  Peter Berg

  Understanding, Battle, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Political, Suffering, Imbeciles

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from May 17, 2013

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• To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

  William Arthur Ward

  Doors, Locks, Pessimist

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Government, Benefits

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces every challenge. Then, like any other overworked cylinder, he starts to sputter and behave erratically. Eventually, he burns out altogether.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Decision, Challenges, Bishops

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• Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

  Bill Dedman

  Children, Believe, Parent

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• I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me.

  Bernie Williams

  Giving, Wish, Lord

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• It's not too bad to be a sort of pop icon, you know? It's not too tough to handle.

  Lynda Carter

  Icons, Tough, Pops

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

  Nick Murray

  Investment Success, Long, Portfolios

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• A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall.

  Janet Macunovich

  Fall, Doe, Tools

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• Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

  John Key

  Personality, Decision, Instinct

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.

  William Halsey

  Men, Outcomes, Circumstances

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