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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• Anything mentionable is manageable.

  Fred Rogers

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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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• 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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• Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like the theater, I like the dance. And it's manageable. The food's good. I know a lot of interesting people here. I lived in Boston for 50 years or more. Wherever I am, I'm usually holed up most of the time in the editing room, and so, when I leave the editing room, even if I just take a walk, it's gorgeous. And I walk everywhere. I'm a victim of the seduction of Paris.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Beautiful, Museums, Editing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.

  Emily Barton

  Fashion, Block, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Reflection, Discovery, Self

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• It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Pain, Character, Past

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Love Is, Trying

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• We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

  Aaron Antonovsky

  Life, Change, Meaningful

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• This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

  Stanley Fish

  Doe, World, Language

  Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Husband, Artist, Movement

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company

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• Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Silence, Sound

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

  Jan Struther

  Couple, Successful, Trying

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• A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

  William Safire

  Mind, Able, Companion

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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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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• My belief is that there will be very large numbers of Internet-enabled devices on the Net - home appliances, office equipment, things in the car and maybe things that you carry around. And since they're all on the Internet and Internet-enabled, they'll be manageable through the network, and so we'll see people using the Net and applications on the Net to manage their entertainment systems, manage their, you know, office activities and maybe even much of their social lives using systems on the Net that are helping them perform that function.

  Vinton Cerf

  Home, Numbers, Car

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

  Bellamy Young

  Pain, Trying, Lessons

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

  Henry Paulson

  Sound, Banking, Safe

  "CBS News' Face the Nation", www.cbsnews.com. July 20, 2008.

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