Maya Angelou Quotes

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Maya Angelou

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• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Control
  • Find
  • Early

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• I struggle with control.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Control
  • Struggle

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Control

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Control
  • Internet
  • Big

• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Self-Control

• Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Community

• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Man
  • Day

• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Important
  • History
  • Events

• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Control
  • Lost

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Die

• Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Future
  • Energy

• Defining, embedding, and living core beliefs set the stage for executives and employees to connect. Through actions that consistently convey who we are and how we act, executives can inspire employees to believe in the organization's values and buy in to its brand.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Believe
  • Organization

• Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Life
  • Science
  • Earth

• I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Control
  • Events
  • Reduced