Letting Quotes - page 18

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone? (Gael Garcia Bernal)
If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around. View quote
Gail Collins
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. View quote
Gail Sheehy
Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard. View quote
Gwen Stefani
Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention. View quote
Howard Rheingold
Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option. View quote
Howard Schultz
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. View quote
Howell Raines
The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me. View quote
Ilona Andrews
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow. View quote
J. A. Spender
What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance. View quote
Jane Campion
I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that. (Janis Ian)
You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down. View quote
J. Lynn
I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go. View quote
Jeffrey McDaniel
Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make. View quote
Jennie Garth
Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another. View quote
Jeremy Stoppelman
I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me. View quote
Jill Scott
I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone. View quote
Joe Namath
When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down. View quote
Joe Torre
Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work. View quote
Joel Edgerton
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition. View quote
John Doolittle
I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage. (John Lurie)
No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen. View quote
John Schlesinger
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. View quote
John Spratt
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work. View quote
John Thorn
I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down. View quote
Johnny Vegas