Herding Cats Other Quotes & Sayings

herding cats and shoveling smoke. — Eric Metaxas

Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside. — Abdellah Taia

The difference between a prince and a toad is overrated because they are both just boys underneath the glitter and the warts. — Lauren Bjorkman

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution. — William H. Calvin

It took Pueblo a few seconds to take in his surroundings. The first thing he realised was that he felt bruised all over; the second was that his clothes were waterlogged, even more than before, from the quicksand; and the third, was that he had landed on his front and was lying on a large, uncomfortable stone.
No, wait ... In his disoriented state, he shifted his weight. The stone didn't move. He was lying on his own fucking erection. — Dianna Hardy

Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats. — Lisa Wingate

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree. — Louis J. Camuti

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world. — Elon Musk

He had nerve damage: input could not penetrate. The world stalled out at his edges. Sometimes he had trouble speaking to other people, rummaging for language, and it seemed to him that an invisible layer divided him from the rest of the world, a membrane of emotional surface tension. — Colson Whitehead

You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives ... that's real. The rest is a story for publication. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Making movies is like herding cats. — Eric Fellner

I'm a professional food eater. — Henry Rollins

Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats — John Naughton

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it. — Neil Gaiman

Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded. — Richard Dawkins

History clearly
shows that governments that have tried to contain, regulate, or otherwise
usurp capital have failed. It is the same with brainpower; no
one has a monopoly on brainpower. Controlling brainpower is like
herding cats. Brainpower creates capital, and capital fuels brainpower.
It is a fundamental dynamic principle. Great ideas, solutions, insights,
or inventions will develop only where they are nurtured and properly
rewarded. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat. — Tanner Colby

Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats. — Al Sharpton

Tell me I didn't just fuck up," he pleaded. "Tell me you wanted me to do that as much as I needed to. — Kimberly Lauren

[Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember. — James Goss

Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. — Anonymous

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored. — Richard Dawkins

You can do anything, not everything — David Allen

Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all. — Gerald Holton