Patricia McCormick Quotes

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

I get rational when I panic.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having what we want. We fear what will become of us and those that we care for. We fear what others think of us and what they don't think of us. We fear, fear, fear and therefore we are controllable through the manipulation of all that we fear. The present War on Terror is the War of Fear. No Fear, no control.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.