Quotes About Lack Of Control

#1. Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

Charles B. MacDonald

#3. Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. - David Kekich

David Allen

#4. It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Alex Lowe

#5. I'm just sick of all the misery, my absolute lack of control over everything.

Melina Marchetta

#6. I was ready to finally acknowledge my complete lack of control over this larger than life connection we shared. I wasn't giving in to him. It was a fight I couldn't win.
It was a fight I didn't even want to fight.

T.M. Frazier

#7. Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. We are so used to thinking of our conscious selves as in charge that all the evidence documenting our lack of control - how much we depend on split-second perceptions and aesthetic judgments - is rather scary.

Shlomo Benartzi

#9. I did those things because of my lack of control. When you touch me Jack, I completely succumb to you. I give into your every whim.

K.A. Linde

#10. I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Patty Duke

#11. Foreboding, and an all too familiar lack of control, roiled in my gut. My opponent might be hungry for a win, but I was famished. Something in my life would be a victory.
Sorry Shark, I wasn't going down tonight. No chance. - Jason Ayers

Lisa Kessler

#12. Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the river, the thrill of rapids, never comprehending your utter lack of control, your constant peril.

Andrea Cremer

#13. I often thought grief was like madness - the lack of control, the overwhelming waves of emotion with unexpected triggers, breathlessness, night sweats, nightmares, and the feeling of utter aloneness, like that of standing on a ledge in a violent wind.

Erika Robuck

#14. There are few things as unsettling as a lack of control in an unfamiliar situation.

Becky Chambers

#15. Ha, that's the problem. You have to exert brain control in order to do it, and isn't a lack of control over your brain why you're in therapy in the first place?

Holly Bourne

#16. In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

Terry Southern

#17. A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of control and piety. The child may be deformed with a harelip or be cursed with the ears and head of a wolf. Or the infant may be born a werewolf.

Jody Shields

#18. Why do men like a woman to give up control? What is it about the lack of control that men like so much?" "It's not that they like a lack of control. But a man wants a woman who gives herself to him. He wants a woman to melt into his arms, to get aroused from a kiss on the back of her neck,

Lauren Blakely

#19. Besides, how could one apologize for kissing a woman twice? Once might be explained away as an impulsive accident. Twice suggested definite intent or a serious lack of control. His

Mary Balogh

#20. I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#21. I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.

Chelsea Krost

#22. The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it is horrible. It's like a fart in church.

Margaret Atwood

#23. My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

#24. If you're black, you were born in jail, Malcolm said. And I felt the truth of this in the blocks I had to avoid, in the times of day when I must not be caught walking home from school, in my lack of control over my body.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#25. You know the worst thing about
being rejected? The lack of control. If I could only control the when and how of being dumped by
somebody, then it wouldn't seem as bad. But then, of course, it wouldn't be rejection, would it? It
would be by mutual consent.

Nick Hornby

#26. Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

LeCrae

#27. Strong minded people control their propensity.
Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.

Ricardo Derose

#28. Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

Terry Bradshaw

#29. Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. Fights and quarrels don't come from lack of skill in conflict resolution. They don't come from people who are irritating. They come from desires that battle within. My desires are occupying the place of command and control inside my heart. Behavior Begins with the Heart

Tedd Tripp

#31. Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

Jim Butcher

#32. Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I know, to my cost, that appearing unfeeling is the price we sometimes pay for being able to speak at all.

Louise Doughty

#33. Those who lack self-control lead disturbed and tumultuous lives; their crimes are balanced by their fears, and they are never at ease.

Seneca.

#34. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

Dave Ramsey

#35. Ostracism makes individuals feel they lack purpose, have less control over their lives, are less good moral beings, and lack self-worth. Those high school cliques aren't uniquely adolescent experiences: Human beings hate being left out. We conform because to do so seems to give our life meaning.

Anonymous

#36. So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

Theodore Dalrymple

#37. I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others' emotions and inability to experience their own.

Graeme Simsion

#38. When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

Erwin McManus

#39. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

Richelle Mead

#40. Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.

Shannon L. Alder

#41. I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

Eugene Jarvis

#42. One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.

Chuck D

#43. Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

Franz Kafka

#44. This system of control depends far more on racial indifference (defined as a lack of compassion and caring about race and racial groups) than racial hostility - a feature it actually shares with its predecessors. All

Michelle Alexander

#45. I only require that my characters have one thing and one thing in common. A total lack of self-control.

Fred Barnett

#46. Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

Francis Chan

#47. As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Thomas Sowell

#48. People don't lack resources, they just lack control over their resources.

Tony Robbins

#49. He is fascinated by their lack of conventional hierarchy or structure and loves how the forces of capital have subverted plans to control and order space.

Graham Owen

#50. There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself.

J.D. Vance

#51. In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.

Hillary Clinton

#52. It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Napoleon Hill

#53. The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

Frederick Lenz

#54. Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.

Jay Maisel

#55. Thaddeus knew again what it felt like to be living a life that was totally out of control. Which is something a cancer diagnosis can do in an eye blink. You don't know what it means, you're threatened and scared to death, and you lack all the information you'll need to try to pull yourself

John Ellsworth

#56. The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Orville Wright

#57. Scared people don't really mean what they say, they're just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what's happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it's out of their control.

Chris Dietzel

#58. She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

Judith McNaught

#59. Lack of forgiveness gives others power over us. Withholding forgiveness simply allows another person to have control over our well-being.

Sue Patton Thoele

#60. This lack of self-control I fear is never ending

Linkin Park

#61. Should anyone here in Rome lack finesse at love-making,
Let him
Try me - read my book, and the results are guaranteed!
Technique is the secret. Charioteer, sailor, oarsman,
All need it.
Technique can control
Love himself.

Ovid

#62. Q. Why is it so difficult to control attention? A. Lack of habit. We are too accustomed to letting things happen. When we want to control attention or something else, we find it difficult, just as physical work is difficult if we are not accustomed to it.

P.D. Ouspensky

#63. Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

Prentice Mulford

#64. People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Albert Bandura

#65. Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense of justice. Being a bad person has more to do with a lack of regard for others and an inability to control one's appetites.

Paul Bloom

#66. We can only speculate why, but physically abusive parents seem to share certain characteristics. First, they have an appalling lack of impulse control.

Susan Forward

#67. Nothing shows our lack of freedom better than our addiction to control.

William McDavid

#68. The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the submission to discipline and the rigor of self-control.

Kenyon Cox

#69. There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

Andrew Carnegie

#70. 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

#71. Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Criss Jami

#72. I want the peace in knowing that is wasn't for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.

Jon Acuff

#73. Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

Roy Baumeister

#74. Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear - specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He's able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.

Larry Burkett

#75. The research literature has identified three factors that universally lead to stress: uncertainty, the lack of information and the loss of control.

Gabor Mate

#76. And this was to be his main point - there was one overriding reason for our failure, which was the lack of coordinated intelligence. Too many agencies, too many bureaucracies defending their corners, too many points of demarcation, insufficient centralized control.

Ian McEwan