Manageable Quotes

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fun, Party, Hunting

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

  Adam Carolla

  Army, Government, Regulation

  "Adam Carolla on Switching Parties and Obama: 'I'm Waiting for the Hope and Change to Kick In'". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 7, 2012.

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• The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational Life, Priorities, Firsts

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• I like you just the way you are.

  Fred Rogers

  I Like You, Way, Neighborhood

  Senate Statement on PBS Funding, delivered 1 May 1969

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• There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Said

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

  Dallas Willard

  Issues

  Source: renovare.org

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• Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.

  Adrian Ballinger

  Dream, Risk, Pursuit

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• Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.

  Thomas Sowell

  Keys, Decision, Needs

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• When it hurts, you can't think of the entire picture. If you break it down to the moment, it becomes manageable.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Hurt, Thinking, Moments

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com. December 29, 2013.

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• We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.

  George Osborne

  Moving, Should Have, People

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Banking, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 2, 1968.

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• There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.

  Peter Drucker

  Complexity

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• When your account has these massive swings up and down, there's a tendency to feel a rush when the market is going your way and devastation when it's going against you. These emotions do absolutely nothing to make you a good trader. It's far better to keep the equity swings manageable and strive for a sense of balance each day, no matter what happens.

  Tom Basso

  Swings, Balance, Devastation

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• I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.

  Ava DuVernay

  Fighting, Emotional, Roots

  Source: deadline.com

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• I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.

  Jewel

  Giving, Feelings, Progress

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very difficult to persuade Russia to withdraw her troops from these countries, that Russia might be more manageable if impressed by American military might, and that a demonstration of the bomb might impress Russia.

  Leo Szilard

  Country, Military, Russia

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• Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory.

  Chris Ware

  Love, Writing, Eye

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• . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Knowing, Knives

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.

  David Berlinski

  Curves, Rest Of Life, Numbers

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Impact, People

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• My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

  Eric Clapton

  Spiritual, Recovery, Who I Am

  "What I've Learned: Eric Clapton" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 6, 2014.

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• Our religion doesn't demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Perfection, Demand, Not Being Perfect

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Aug 25, 2013

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• If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an apparently unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

  Claire Weekes

  Education, Wall, Thinking

  "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".

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