Margherita Missoni Quotes

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

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

I think, in life, the more you force things, they break. You just let things happen.

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.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me.

You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.

It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.

Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.

I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things.

Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.