Quotes About Total Control

#1. I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.

Ricky Schroder

#2. I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Shelby Lynne

#3. Forty minutes later, I leaned back in my chair, and looked at the thousand or so pages of manuscript towering on my desk. It hit me. Holy cow. This author had total control over this book. Total. And it was one of seven. One. Of. Seven.

Carla Bolte

#4. Indeed, the KGB's nearly total control of the Russian Orthodox Church, both at home and abroad, is one of the most sordid and little known chapters in the history of our organization.

Oleg Kalugin

#5. No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

Rita Mae Brown

#6. George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

Ann Robinson

#7. it's a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself.

Blake Crouch

#8. I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

David Bowie

#9. Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#10. The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

Hideo Kojima

#11. I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.

Gary Louris

#12. It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, I have to work with whites.

Michael Emerson

#13. There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

Steven Knight

#14. In fact, if anybody on the Somme battlefield is overdue to be treated with a little pathos it is not the attackers, with their threefold artillery superiority, total control of the air and copious reserves of of manpower, but rather the German defenders opposite.

Alexander Watson

#15. The Media are corporations so ... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.

Noam Chomsky

#16. People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.

Jean-Claude Killy

#17. And she remembered the way he had gone from total control to utter disaster with the flip of a switch, like watching an intricate glass sculpture shatter into a thousand pieces - only to pull together again until you could barely see the seams.

Brigid Kemmerer

#18. Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?

Mark Cahill

#19. When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life asks of us is to do our best to cope with what is handed to us.

Mary Balogh

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance

Jackson Pollock

#23. In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.

Ian McKellen

#24. Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway"
"A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life

John Wayne

#25. One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.

Chuck Todd

#26. I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.

Norah Jones

#27. You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

Marshall Sylver

#28. You are a hologram of the world around you, and in that hologram, whatever you do inside yourself shows itself in your outside, and that means you have total control over your life and your creations and experiences by just going inside.

Maha Devi Li Ra La

#29. For me an adventure is something that I can take an active part in but that I don't have total control over.

Peter Croft

#30. American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

Noam Chomsky

#31. Does it seem like I'm out of it?

No you seemed like you were in total control as you fell down the stairs.

Aya Nakahara

#32. Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art that's meaningful to me that resonates with people, and honestly that's all I could ever want.

MC Lars

#33. Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

Cathy Freeman

#34. When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

Amy Chua

#35. When you control your thoughts, you control your mind. When you control your mind, you control your life. And once you reach the stage of being in total control of your life, you become the master of your destiny.

Robin S. Sharma

#36. Where the theologian is forced to rescue an incompetent spirit who has, for one imaginative reason or another, lost total control of his creation, the gospel of the malevolent hand stands unchaste, uncontaminated, and inviolable.

John Zande

#37. It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#38. [Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#39. I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.

Adolfo Cambiaso

#40. Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

Monica Seles

#41. Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

Justin Halpern

#42. The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

William Friedkin

#43. Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Alain De Botton

#44. I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and productions.

Christian Fennesz

#45. Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

Bob Simon

#46. Interestingly, Marxism, Communism and its derivative, Socialism, when seen years later in practice, are nothing but state-capitalism and rule by a privileged minority, exercising despotic and total control over a majority which is left with virtually no property or legal rights.

Andrew Carrington Hitchcock

#47. But I found in chess a very interesting game, especially the fact that a prisoner has total control over his pieces, which gives him some confidence back.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#48. I have total control over everything. I'm doing it all for me.

Myleene Klass

#49. What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.

Alexis Ohanian

#50. Everyone would fear her again. And love her, of course. Mrs Pincent needed to be loved as much as wanted to be feared-to her they were two sides of the same coin. Both gave her total control.

Gemma Malley

#51. The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

Rush Limbaugh

#52. Not comfort for her, but for him. Putting him in a place where he had total control over her. Where he could soothe her, cherish her, protect her.

Lorelei James

#53. When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.

Michael Jackson

#54. I may not be in total control of what happens in my life, but I certainly am in charge of how I choose to perceive my experience.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#55. Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience.

Auliq Ice

#56. I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

Jane Badler

#57. MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.

Brad Alan Lewis

#58. The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

Napoleon Hill

#59. If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.

Kevin Keck

#60. Tsars were autocrats, often tyrannical, who held total control over everything and everyone in Russia,

Roy A. Adkins

#61. I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

Drew Barrymore

#62. However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He's in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.

Crit Kincaid

#63. When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

Alice Cooper

#64. It's the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard - but when you move, you do not suffer. That's the feeling I am looking for.

Ueli Steck

#65. The Empire is just a skin we wear, you see. A shell. It's not just about law and order. It's about total control.

Chuck Wendig

#66. The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

Jim Rohn

#67. I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

Edward Bennett Williams

#68. The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

William Binney

#69. Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice.

Howard Thompson

#70. Let us dare, then, to make the following hypothesis: the raw materials of today's production process are excitation, erection, ejaculation, and pleasure and feelings of self-satisfaction, omnipotent control, and total destruction.

Paul B. Preciado

#71. A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

Eve Arnold

#72. As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

Naomi Novik

#73. Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.

Majid Kazmi

#74. Pornography ... overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy.

Linda S. Reeves

#75. Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.

Sarah Dessen

#76. This story means that we must live in full consciousness of the miracle of divine providence, understanding that God has total hands-on control of the world - and that all of life is to be lived for him without fear and with increasing expectation. R. Kent Hughes

Anonymous

#77. man is always equal to his purpose; when you control him, you do half a job but when you control his purpose, you do a total job.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#78. Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency-optimized organization recognizes quality as its enemy. That's why many corporate Quality Programs are really Quality Reduction Programs in disguise.

Tom DeMarco

#79. Their study found that the number of prescriptions required per resident fell to half that of the control nursing home. Psychotropic drugs for agitation, like Haldol, decreased in particular. The total drug costs fell to just 38 percent of the comparison facility. Deaths fell 15 percent.

Atul Gawande

#80. They seem to be in total, if not complete control

Jon Champion

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

Fred Barnett

#82. 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.

#83. In Russia today, 110 persons, including Mr. Putin's cronies, control 35% of the country's wealth while 50% of adults have total household wealth of $871 or lower.

Anonymous

#84. Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

John Hume

#85. Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift ... called self-control.

Lysa TerKeurst

#86. Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Jack Valenti

#87. In a ravenous fifty-five-day spasm during the summer of 1898, the United States asserted control over five far-flung lands with a total of 11 million inhabitants: Guam, Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Never in history has a nation leaped so suddenly to overseas empire. At

Stephen Kinzer

#88. I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

Ken Burns

#89. Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

Cher

#90. The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

R. Lee Ermey

#91. There are three barriers that block our total surrender to God: fear, pride, and confusion. We don't realize how much God loves us, we want to control our own lives, and we misunderstand the meaning of surrender.

Rick Warren

#92. Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.

Camille Paglia

#93. One has to be in control, otherwise the whole dynamic becomes a total disaster.

Helen Fielding

#94. None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

Steve Alten

#95. I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government, because it means when I get the money, when I get the grant to do the film, of course it's based on the script, but I have total artistic control and I can do personal stuff.

Philippe Falardeau

#96. He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide ... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#97. It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control.

Ron Paul