Manageable Quotes - Page 2

• When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Life Is Good, America

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• Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Trying, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Suffering, Accepted, Terror

  Lesley Hazleton (1985). “The Right to Feel Bad”, Ballantine Books

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• Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Mean, Loss, Weight

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• I am manageable. I, you know, it'll suffice I think. No, no, I feel pretty good. I trained for a long time and I got really cool, like I was doing jumps. It got like, I felt really good, but then when I got out on gravel and fake snow and - it just kind of all went downhill. But I think it's still okay.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, Long, Snow

  Source: collider.com

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• My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.

  Gary Gulman

  Brother, Thinking, People

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• We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable.

  Walter Kirn

  Lying, Mean, Dramatic Situations

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die each year due to similar and often manageable complications. They die because they don't have access to critical maternity care that could easily save their lives.

  Christy Turlington

  Girl, Daughter, Years

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• Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early in his career identified six. That felt like a nice, manageable number of guys to design and write for. It was anger, fear, sadness, disgust, joy and surprise.

  Pete Docter

  Nice, Sadness, Writing

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 3, 2015.

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• I do enjoy and feel compelled to talk about things that are taboo. One, because I think I'm a troublemaker inside, if someone says, "Don't say that," it's all I want to say. And also, something I learned in therapy ... which is darkness can't exist in the light, and then that made me think of something that Mr. Rogers said, which is, "If it's mentionable, it's manageable."

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Light, Darkness

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.

  Michael Gove

  Believe, Order, Immigration

  Interview with Laura Kuenssberg, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Transformation, Novel

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• When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspiring, Motivation, Games

  "I can't accept not trying : Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence". Book by Michael Jordan, 1994.

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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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• This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

  David Sedaris

  Understanding, World, Safe

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• And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Hurt, Pain

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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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• There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  War, Grief, Two

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.150, A&C Black

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• i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

  Louise Erdrich

  Rivers, Different, Want

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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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• At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

  James Fenton

  Lines, Poetic, Relaxed

  "Down in the deep dark dell" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2002.

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