Noah Hawley Quotes

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

I can only control what I can control.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

We can only control what we can control.

I've always known I've had power.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.