Letting Go Quotes - Page 28

• I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

  Lefty Gomez

  Yankees, Balls, Scared

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• We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Life, Should, Truth Of Life

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• So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

  Brandon Routh

  Taken, Thinking, Creative

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Mindfulness

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• I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

  Story Musgrave

  Long, Telescopes, Hubble Space Telescope

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Perfect, Enlightenment

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• The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Lonely, Buddhism

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• I just want everyone to know I'm suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn't let go.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Hands, Nba

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• I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.

  Ali Banisadr

  War, Heart, Air

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think your emotion changes from person to person. As you get older, a lot of people become cynical because of the experiences they have had and haven't been able to let go of, whether they've been cheated on or whether it hasn't worked out. It's so easy to turn around right now and say, "Just let it go."

  Alex Pettyfer

  Thinking, People, Cynical

  Source: collider.com

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• I think passion is something that's more powerful than even love. It's something that you're not willing to let go of, and you'll work really hard to make sure that stays a part of your life.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Powerful, Passion, Thinking

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• I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot.

  Jared Leto

  Make Or Break, Impossible, Film

  "Awards Roundtable: 6 Top Actors' Uncensored Tales, From Worst Auditions to Leg Waxing". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 30, 2013.

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• If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

  Jack White

  Rooms, Saws, Tables

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.

  Dani Shapiro

  Powerful, Haunting, Maggie

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• Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

  Bob Ross

  Fall, Littles, Just Let Go

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• Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us.
  Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer.
  Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again.
  Love heals, forgives, and makes whole.

  Ernest Holmes

  Past, Love Is, Forgiving

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• ...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development.
  These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges.
  Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice.
  And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Goodbye, Space, Innovation

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• Be willing to let go of who you are, to become who you might be

  Randy Gage

  Might, Willing, Who You Are

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• Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

  Richard Bach

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx
  Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life.

  Andy Biersack

  Fun, Taken, Thinking

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• Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Compassion, Order

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• In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.

  Peter Rollins

  Sublime, World, Way

  Peter Rollins (2013). “The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Real, Differences, Anxiety

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2015). “Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because God often shows up at night”, p.82, Canterbury Press

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• The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Lying, Believe

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