Christen Press Quotes

We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.

Christen Press

• Power
• Control
• Stress

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Power
  • Career
  • Thought

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• 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

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Organization

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Control
  • Always
  • Mistake

• Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Leader
  • Diversity

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Important
  • Stress
  • September

• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Change
  • Control

• 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

• When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It's a challenge because I have to do a lot of navigating to make the production stellar but do it on a realistic budget.

  

  Kaskade
  • Me
  • Control
  • Challenge

• Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Art

• I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Power
  • Unrequited

• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Kill

• Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Directors
  • Concept
  • Screenplay

• We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.

  

  Christen Press
  • Power
  • Control
  • Stress