A Quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Lin-Manuel Miranda
American - Actor
Born: January 16, 1980

Essentially, no one can control what other people think of the final outcome. Once it's done, the audience will like it or not, they may even think I'm an idiot. They can also think I'm brilliant or whatever, I can't control that. What I can control is the joy in putting it together, the process of the work itself. I try and create an atmosphere where we're all enjoying the work. That's the only thing you can hold on to, the only true thing.

Matt Ross

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

Kim Edwards

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

Kim Edwards

The only thing I can control is myself. I can't control what anyone thinks about me, I can't control circumstance, I can't control the things that God controls.

Bibi Bourelly

I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.

Jose Antonio Vargas

The NBA is a job. Just like any other job complaining about opportunity doesn't solve anything. The only thing you can do is control what you can control, and when you are at peace with the work you put in then you don't have any regrets and that's truly the main thing about this journey.

Spencer Dinwiddie

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

Petr Cech

I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.

Tom Hanks

The only thing that I can do - and the only thing that I've always done - is to ride my bike fast and get my head down and control the things I can control.

Lizzie Armitstead

The only thing we can control is the daily work we put in, and that's all that matters.

Danilo Gallinari

Never equate yourself with whatever success may be and how fleeting that is. The only thing you can do every day is become a better actor. That's the only thing I have control over.

Jonathan Banks

No, we don't control who our parents are. We don't control what color we are. We don't control what home we are born into. But we control our attitude. We control our work ethic. We control our drive and our commitment.

Dabo Swinney

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

Christen Press

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.