Rozonda Thomas Quotes

I just try to control what I can control.

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

I'm a bit of a control freak, and I had to realize you can't control everything in your life.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

It's a huge learning that things aren't always in your control. You can only be responsible for what you're doing.

You control what you can control.

I just try to do what I can, control what I can, and let the rest handle itself.

What we can control is our readiness.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

Nothing ever goes to plan. As soon as you are OK with that, everything is much easier.

You go year to year and you can only control what you can control.

What we can do is control what we can control.

You cannot control everything - you try to control what you can control.

You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.