Not Controlling Quotes

#1. The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Gloria Steinem

#2. I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

Gary Busey

#3. I couldn't stand not controlling my own product from how it's manufactured to how it's sold.

Mickey Drexler

#4. If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.

Ken Rosewall

#5. If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.

Jimmy Evans

#6. You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Sam Harris

#7. I also now knew that agreeing to life is the great secret to happiness, not controlling life. Too

Joe Vitale

#8. Love is not controlling your loved ones' behavior. Love knows that since the people you love share the same universal consciousness, they will access their truth in time.

Cloris Kylie

#9. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#11. Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.

Tariq Ramadan

#12. The purpose of the word "slut" is: controlling women through shame and humiliation. Women's bodies are always the ones that are being vied over for control - whether it's rape, reproductive rights, or violence against women, it's our bodies that are the battleground, not men's.

Jessica Valenti

#13. Love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Tracie Peterson

#14. Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That's why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. Baine was controlling her passion, curbing it from a destructive wild-natured thing, to something beautiful and wonderful. For the countless time since his arrival, Ivy found herself not caring about anything else. All she wanted was for the mouth dance to continue. Forever.

Shirley Bourget

#16. With love, don't desire to tie someone down but to set them free.

Debasish Mridha

#17. You are not a spiritual being in a monkey body you are a monkey pretending to be a spiritual being controlling itself.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#18. There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

Wendy Beckett

#19. We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.

Gloria Steinem

#20. Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

John F. Kennedy

#21. I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

David Duval

#22. Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals

Asa Don Brown

#23. My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

Marilyn Manson

#24. Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only by being aware but also by controlling what is happening inside and around ourselves...

Assegid Habtewold

#25. Footballers nowadays are controlling their image through their own Facebook page so its not the club that controls them anymore, they do what they want at anytime.

Emmanuel Petit

#26. It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. Not slaves," said Halyard, chuckling patronizingly. "Citizens, employed by government. They have same rights as other citizens - free speech, freedom of worship, the right to vote. Before the war, they worked in the Ilium Works, controlling machines, but now machines control themselves much better.

Anonymous

#28. When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.

Arnon Goldfinger

#29. True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation.

Ken Poirot

#30. [T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government ... and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

Noah Webster

#31. Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing.

Penney Peirce

#32. The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

B.F. Skinner

#33. The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#34. But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Jane Goodall

#35. Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

Jules Feiffer

#36. Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#37. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Kahlil Gibran

#38. It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

GG Allin

#39. The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#40. Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#41. Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

Martyn

#42. A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.

Richard Rohr

#43. You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

Keith Miller

#44. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

Liz Hemingway

#45. Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.

Greg Boyle

#46. I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.

Linda Evangelista

#47. The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

Sugata Mitra

#48. Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

Warren Buffett

#49. Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

#50. If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.

Eugenia Price

#51. So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years.

David Icke

#52. To not judge is to be like a peach. We shrink our space by giving up controlling others. Instead, we focus on controlling ourselves. We set others free to be who they are.

John Kuypers

#53. I think it's important to be authentic but also be able to have fun and not be overly controlling or insecure. Dating is just one of those things where it's kind of when you know, you know. I have been really busy with my career and sometimes I find it hard to juggle the two.

Nolan Gerard Funk

#54. If you fear that defending your boundaries is being controlling, don't worry. There is a difference between being controlling and having boundaries. Controlling people is about telling them what to do. Setting boundaries is about saying what you do or do not want to happen to you.

Adelyn Birch

#55. Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

#56. Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

Veronica Roth

#57. The powers that be not only try to control events,
but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

Michael Parenti

#58. If someone yells at me, they are not expressing love. They may be threatening me. They may be expressing great frustration with me. They may simply be trying to control my behavior. However, they are not communicating love.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#59. The words were casual, but that was panic in his eyes. Not-- not the controlling fear Tamlin had once succumbed to, but...genuine terror of not knowing where I was, i I needed help. Just as I would want to know where he was, if he needed help, if he vanished when our enemies surrounded us.

Sarah J. Maas

#60. Whosoever, therefore, asks any one to believe blindly, or drags people behind him by the controlling power of his superior will, does an injury to humanity, though he may not intend it.

Swami Vivekananda

#61. Slavery and a controlling spirit are not God's methods of training and teaching people.

Sunday Adelaja

#62. Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.

Gloria Steinem

#63. What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#64. It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

Wilder Penfield

#65. You are not responsible for your pain. You are responsible for managing it, controlling it, minimising it.

Niall Finn

#66. I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

Carre Otis

#67. To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real?

Jay Woodman

#68. The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

Dick Morris

#69. It also reminds me that true power comes not from submission or gain, but from controlling my inner demons. Because our true enemies live within ourselves and feed from the lessons we failed to learn from our pasts.

J.C. Reed

#70. I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Paulo Coelho

#71. I have trouble controlling my base emotions when the moon is full, but anger is the hardest for me. If I'm mad, I turn into the Hulk. Except I'm not green.

Amanda Carlson

#72. I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

Robert Downey Jr.

#73. Prohibit omens altogether. You can best predict your future by controlling it yourself, not by trusting luck or fate to control it.

Sun Tzu

#74. The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.

Ambrose Bierce

#75. [There's] a number of questionable characters whose goal is clearly not to disseminate information, but to prolong their pathetic reign by controlling people through a highly-organized and continued engineering of ignorance.

Marc Vouillot

#76. If we are not in conflict with Palestine than why are they so afraid of us presenting Palestinian voices? Of course the answer is obvious, and we see it throughout the U.S. and the world, controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.

Jon Rubin

#77. what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He

Mercedes Lackey

#78. Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

Criss Jami

#79. What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head ... with the computer, things are not so much created as they are produced, with the producer-director becoming the star and the controlling force of much that was in other hands at other times.

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#80. I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#81. I believe it's not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it's necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever.

Bill Gates

#82. The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.

Jon Meacham

#83. Maybe you could call me a little controlling or I like things to be my way, but since I was a little girl, I've known what I wanted. I'm very rootsy, but it really hadn't ever caused me too much strife. I really know when to say when. I'm not too outward but I'm very honest.

Ashton Shepherd

#84. Changing a planning tool or a method won't create significant change in the results we're getting in our lives - although the implied promise is that it will. It's not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it's questioning the whole assumption of control.

Stephen R. Covey

#85. It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

Jeanette Winterson

#86. For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.

Christmas Humphreys

#87. There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

Eliphas Levi

#88. Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Bill Maher

#89. When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

Alfie Kohn

#90. I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

Gloria Steinem

#91. To me it appears that you have simply exchanged one controlling environment for another. I am worried that you are not free here at all. You have simply been given a greater cage in which to roam." My

Tillie Cole

#92. Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

Gloria Steinem

#93. The biggest problem that the world has is nuclear weapons. Global warming is not our big problem. Our big problem is the maniacs that are controlling weaponry that has never been like it is today.

Donald Trump

#94. So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.

George Will

#95. Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

Laura Schlessinger

#96. He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#97. In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'

D. A. Carson

#98. A magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

Willie Soon

#99. I want each of you to go through life making the most of your individuality. Like it or not, you will go out into the real world and be treated as an adult. Adults show each other no mercy. If you fail to cultivate within yourself a fight-back mentality, society will end up controlling you.

Tadao Ando

#100. As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own ... women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.

Carolyn Heilbrun