Alex Honnold

In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

American Athlete

David Byrne

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

Scottish Musician

Jeff Goodell

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

American Author

James Frain

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

English Actor

Shelley Long

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

American Actress

Katie Aselton

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

American Director

Madison Beer

It's important to drive your own ship, and it's your career, so you might as well take it by the reins.

American Musician

Mark Manson

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

Christina Aguilera

When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

American Politician

Used specifically when talking about horse riding or activities involving physical reins.

Literal Use

Implies actively guiding or steering something, not just holding onto it.

Active Guidance

Can be used metaphorically to describe control in non-equestrian contexts.

Not Always Literal

Often used when someone new takes control or leadership, like in a job transfer.

Power Transfer

Symbolizes the responsibility and authority that come with managing a situation or group.

Leadership Symbol

Can relate to controlling personal habits, thoughts, or actions, not just others or organizations.

Personal Control

When you rein in something, you're working to limit or restrict it, often for beneficial reasons.

Restraining Action

Used to describe quick action to control a situation or behavior before it escalates.

Immediate Response

Does not necessarily imply long-term control but can mean temporary or situational restraint.

Momentary Control

 drove me in many ways to do this journey for me the the measure of this journey was much more in the friendships that I made rather than the distance that I'd come all the time that had taken there were times on this journey when I really did have to let go of the reins and allow the JIT the journey to guide me but there are other times like when I

Tim Cope: On the Trail...

 that we need a theory of change and what policy makers often seem to believe is that they can only affect change in schools by grabbing the reins and taking command of everything and controlling it and that's what we're seeing around the world command and control mentalities and education is not an industrial

Expanding our definition...

 Now, think about this for a minute. If hallucination is a kind of uncontrolled perception, then perception right here and right now is also a kind of hallucination, but a controlled hallucination in which the brain's predictions are being reined in by sensory information from the world.

Your brain hallucinates...

 including reasoning, problem-solving and good judgment. In other words, the very type of brain activity that's responsible for reining in those impulsive and often risky behaviors that are so characteristic of adolescence and that are so terrifying to us parents of teenagers.

Why school should start...

 And I didn't enter into this union under the auspices that she was going to be my helper or my rib, but a fully complex -- Right? That's not right. But a fully complex human being whose femininity wasn't for me to rein in, control or critique. It's her brilliance,

A queer vision of love...

 about what they don't know, or don't understand, or is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way, and maybe censors that natural curiosity, or you know, reins in the question-asking

It's not fair having 12...

 through small acts of love, which meant being kind even when people wronged you. But it gave them a to rein in the ego. Eventually, I left home for college and without the daily grounding of Sufism in my life, I felt unmoored.

There's more to life...

 are two different things, so what you need to do is get politically active. But one of the things I will tell you is what would our world look like if we were able to wrest the reins of governmental power

The End of Roe v. Wade...

 She was so beautiful that Svadilfari ignored his master and broke free of his reins. The mason tried to catch him, but the mare ran deep into the woods and Svadilfari followed. The stranger was furious.

The myth of Loki and the...

 they're chasing the reins which feed these grasses if you look at the woodley's they have these really significant incisor rose and loose lips that's to help them rapidly eat that

Rein

A strap that is used to control and guide a horse.

Often appears as...

Control over somebody or something.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

To control someone or something, like you control a horse with reins.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Literal Use

Active Guidance

Not Always Literal

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