Caroline Corr Quotes

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

I like definitive things.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

In government it is order that matters.

Structure is not about moving boxes around on a chart. Structure is about power.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate more. What they needed was more certainty about the future of the company.

I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.