Proportional Control Quotes & Sayings

and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His — Jonathan Swift

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty. — Hugh Evans

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money. — Missy Elliot

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed. — Audrey MacLean

Crying can bring such relief. — Anne Frank

(Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things - there can be a reality of God's presence and activity whether we feel it or not, and we can have a sense of God's reality and activity but the sense may be false.) — John E. Goldingay

As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion. — Pat Williams

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil? — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The cord that tethers ability to success is both loose and elastic. It is easy to see fine qualities in successful books or to see unpublished manuscripts, inexpensive vodkas, or people struggling in any field as somehow lacking. It is easy to believe that ideas that worked were good ideas, that plans that succeeded were well designed, and that ideas and plans that did not were ill conceived. And it is easy to make heroes out of the most successful and to glance with disdain at the least. But ability does not guarantee achievement, nor is achievement proportional to ability. And so it is important to always keep in mind the other term in the equation - the role of chance ... What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized. — Leonard Mlodinow

Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart's territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and it is as big as the country she writes about. Is she the quintessential American girl? You bet she is, part Annie Oakley, part Emily Dickinson - sharpshooting poet of wild nights. She zooms in on the detritus of love - the broken fragments, the fallen leaves - and puts together a collage that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Watch out - she's driving down your street. — Barbara Hamby