Tyler Perry Quotes

I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.

Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing. - Tam al'Thor

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

For me, I go somewhere for three days, and then I come back and I want to change everything, and so it's a fight with everybody. I'm transforming and convincing. It's more than designing. It's shaking people and trying to give them direction. I'm a bit of a control freak. This is a problem as I get older, and it's something I should work on. I should be more confident - learn to trust people and give them freedom and delegate.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

I can lead my team.

You have to know when to give up control, and if you go to a good restaurant, you have to give it up - it's a trust factor.

I'm a leader.

I know how to lead.

You always want to know you have somebody at the helm who knows what they're doing.

I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

I'm not as obsessive-compulsive about certain things; I give a lot of latitude to people and support people. I know that I can't do it myself and that you're only as good as the people you have behind you.

I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

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.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.