Quotes About Restraint

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

I'm not looking to stick my nose into an area where I'm not needed.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

A coach should not stir up headlines after a match.

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

The biggest learning is that an athlete needs to know when to stop. To know that if I push beyond this, there could be a problem.

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

I think when I first started out, I had a kind of an exuberance about language, comedy, narrative leaps that... stopped just short of non sequiturs. And I'm much more cautious now.

There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

Just because you have a mouth and nobody is stopping you, you can't say whatever you want.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

I have the version of me where I'm interviewing someone, where I definitely am the straight man, and I like to show a lot of respect to my guest and let them take the reins. I don't like to compete with my guests. I don't like to be funnier than my guests or get into a 'Who's wackier?' sort of thing.

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.