Top 100 Quotes About Control
#1. The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS
Tony Robbins
#2. To gain control over a large number of people you do not have to place them in containers with suction caps attached to their bodies like in the film "The Matrix". It is enough to create an all-encompassing information network because then people will automatically take their places in its cells.
Vadim Zeland
#4. I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.
Sara Sheridan
#5. Where the observer is at first a real goodness realized, later it is a sophisticated power holder. The observer is given power and control that belongs to oneness. When oneness has that power and that control, there is love.
John De Ruiter
#6. Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
Michael Bergdahl
#7. It is 3:38 a.m., and the time of night when my mind starts running around all wild and out of control, like my cat, George, when he was a kitten.
Jennifer Niven
#8. The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates.
Milton Friedman
#9. Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.
Pamela Yates
#10. I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best movie you can, and then realize that it's out of your control.
Joseph Kosinski
#11. The good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again alone.
Marcel Proust
#12. Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.
Bernard Schaffer
#13. I think when Madonna did sexy stuff, she looked more in control. And I think it looked more like she was breaking boundaries. Today, it feels like it's pandering to everything that's wrong, and I don't think it's nice, especially for young girls.
Jennifer Saunders
#15. We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
Byron Katie
#16. First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
Anatoly Karpov
#17. I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.
Mike Davidson
#18. The whole calamity would be in one of those police reports that D. B. Sinclair and his "concerned citizens" filed carefully under "T" for "Things" at the back of a locked filing cabinet in the vehicle-licensing centre a day before a bonfire got accidentally out of control.
Kate Griffin
#19. Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
Cam Newton
#20. This is the first duty of parents, and no false delicacy should keep them from the watchful care, the gentle warning, which makes self-knowledge and self-control the compass and pilot of the young as they leave the safe harbour of home.
Louisa May Alcott
#21. As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
Rocco DiSpirito
#22. Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.
Lawren Harris
#23. Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
Barbara Amiel
#24. Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Camille Paglia
#25. The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.
Jeffrey Meyers
#26. Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#27. I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
Chuck Palahniuk
#28. Entrepreneurship is the way we take control of our lives in a tough economy.
Lori Greiner
#29. I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like sand at all. I don't enjoy all that sunshine and heat without the benefit of climate control.
Roxane Gay
#30. Stop the negativity and control our creativity
KRS-One
#31. I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#32. Life was really too short and twisted to hold grudges, especially over something she truly had no control over.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#33. What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
Igor Stravinsky
#34. You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's their prerogative. But I think anybody who looks at it objectively has trouble making the case that somehow this is a bad economy.
Dick Cheney
#35. They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.
Dalia Mogahed
#36. Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Caitlin Doughty
#37. Every house I've ever robbed, every establishment, it's the same story - you identify the first line of defense and take it away. That's how you get control.
Annika Martin
#38. Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
Elisabeth Elliot
#39. Don't let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
Barbara Johnson
#40. The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
Robert Lowell
#41. We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don't, someone else will.
Toni Sorenson
#42. Her receding laughter sounded so comforting, so alluring to my senses that I could hardly control myself from reaching out to her and telling her what I felt there and then!
Faraaz Kazi
#43. The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails.
Boris Pasternak
#44. If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character.
Stephen Colbert
#45. The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.
Marianne Williamson
#46. I like being in charge of the remote control.
Cilla Black
#47. Life's a car ride ... Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.
Carolyn Mackler
#48. Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.
Alan Casden
#49. Man is just what he thinks himself to be ... He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
Ernest Holmes
#50. Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself.
Muni Natarajan
#51. Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
Rashida Jones
#52. No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.
Tom Wolfe
#53. My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
Shawn Ashmore
#54. Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.
Lucy Freeman
#55. It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers ... They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
Alan Turing
#56. Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.
Sun Tzu
#57. Marriages don't stay in neat, tidy shapes you know; they sprawl about, very messily sometimes. The important thing is not to let them get out of control.
Penny Vincenzi
#58. In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income.
Robert G. Allen
#59. She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.
Nora Roberts
#60. I had been very angry, angry enough to lose control; none of us are above it.
Shania Twain
#61. The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.
Danielle Rohr
#62. You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.
Sara Rue
#63. Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and that,' when they can't even locate a fastball. Learn how to control your fastball and then once you've got that, move on to other things.
Cliff Lee
#64. The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.
Robert Sherrill
#65. Not only does a regular intense exercise programme elevate spirits, it enables the Type O to maintain weight control, emotional balance and a strong self-image.
Peter J. D'Adamo
#66. You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.
Mario Chalmers
#67. They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
Muse
#68. Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.
James Woods
#69. The radiation experiments are part of the climate and historical background for mind control experimentation.
Colin A. Ross
#70. Impulse control problems don't usually come with a body count.
Mira Grant
#71. elusive nature of knowledge-based work requires different measurement and control methods compared to creating tangible deliverables from physical materials.
Terry Doerscher
#72. You keep life on a short leash."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're scared of what you can't control.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#73. It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.
John Pilger
#74. What we deny owns us. You can't control what you don't first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you.
Lisa Renee Jones
#75. Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
Henry A. Kissinger
#76. If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
Meg Tilly
#77. When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me."
That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.
Augusten Burroughs
#78. ...I went to Chicago, where I stayed with an eminent gynaecologist and his family...He was obviously a man of very strong sexual passions, and his face was ravaged by the efforts of self-control.
Bertrand Russell
#79. A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.
Cynthia Kenyon
#80. Fear says "I am in control": joy remembers Who is in control! EL
Evinda Lepins
#81. Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.
Margot Robbie
#82. Didn't even have to argue with her. She just told me she loved me and offered the back of her neck." He crossed his arms over his chest. "How many pups you got with Janie Mae now, Bubba Ray . . . and still she's as unmarked as a newborn babe. So which Smith has control of his female now, boy?
Shelly Laurenston
#83. We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.
Richard Bach
#84. More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
#85. Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.
Simone Weil
#86. Her model of self-control with food is why I have never had an issue in this area. Praise God for my mom's good example in how to eat.
Lisa Bedrick
#87. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.
Walter Rodney
#88. The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.
Ted Dekker
#89. The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
Michel De Montaigne
#90. Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. - David Kekich
David Allen
#91. Confession and repentance might be described as the negative side of submission; this involves getting rid of everything which hinders God's control over our lives. Yielding to God might be described as the positive side ... placing ourselves totally into the hands of God.
Billy Graham
#92. The image sears my brain too, and I wonder if I will ever be able to forget it. Although I realize that I am in trouble here, there is still a part of me that wants to giggle. The situation has moved so out of control, I half-expect him to pull out a pair of furry handcuffs.
Julie Buxbaum
#93. Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.
Faith Popcorn
#94. If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.
Tony Danza
#95. Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
Brittany Snow
#96. The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
John Doolittle
#97. I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.
John Shelby Spong
#98. So many things happen that we can't control, its best not to worry about what we can. Believing you can change the world has a terrible effect on one's ego.
Bauvard
#99. One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.
Michael Gove
#100. Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that's out of my control.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
