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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I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.

Philip K. Dick

Powerful, Book, Writing

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Anything mentionable is manageable.

Fred Rogers

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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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That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

Aldous Huxley

Reality, Common Sense, Brain

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Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself.

Gail Carriger

Husband, Pregnancy, Eggs

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Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Aldous Huxley

Men, Brain, Spiders

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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Louisa May Alcott

Real, Hero, Tired

Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.412, Harvard University Press

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The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.

Susan Orlean

Believe, Ideas, People

Susan Orlean (2009). “The Orchid Thief”, p.133, Random House

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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

Bill Watterson

Secret, Looks, Done

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If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

Lisa Jewell

Destiny, Together Again, Two

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My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.

Koren Zailckas

Cutting, Looks, Sandwiches

Koren Zailckas (2010). “Fury: True Tales of a Good Girl Gone Ballistic”, p.41, Penguin

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Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

Somaly Mam

Inspirational, Pain, Going Away

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There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

Charlie Kaufman

Believe, Ideas, People

Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”

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As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

Melissa Marr

Errors, Littles, Stuff

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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

Fred Rogers

Fear, Grief, Communication

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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

Fareed Zakaria

Order, Creating, House

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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Bear Grylls

Travel, Adventure, Thinking

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So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Moving

American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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