Quotes About Trying To Control Everything

#1. Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

Melody Beattie

#2. Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. It may seem paradoxical, but you really do experience greater happiness when you choose to stop trying to control everything. And on a spiritual level, you evolve by learning the power of surrender and of love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#4. By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

Charlotte Rampling

#5. Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

Halsey

#6. life was made up of hundreds of individual moments. We need to focus on the good ones, rather than trying to control everything continuously.

Nick M. Lloyd

#7. That's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block out the things we can't.

Holly Smale

#8. Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.

Holly Smale

#9. As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

Kristen Stewart

#10. Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.
But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?
Then you deal with it and keep going.

Lord, Cynthia

#11. I think you've been trying so hard to control everything, intentionally picking the wrong people, just so you won't get hurt. And now you're starting to believe that you're incapable of anything more. You're beginning to believe your own lies." "Maybe.

Vi Keeland

#12. Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn't. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.

Terrance Dicks

#14. I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

Alison Lohman

#15. The point of freewriting is to get past the voice inside your head that tells you your ideas aren't good enough, your words aren't good enough, you're no writer and so forth.

M. Molly Backes

#16. A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the keepers of religion may themselves become one of the greatest dangers to the credibility - and the morality - of the church itself.

Joan D. Chittister

#17. I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it. I'm just gonna use every feature to make me outrageous - the best.

DJ Khaled

#18. Lillian was always so good at treating everything like a test, like some kind of game where the prize was shiny and untouchable. Perfection. She wanted me to back off, butt out, stop trying to control her life. And she wanted me to save her.

Brenna Yovanoff

#19. You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

Victoria Beckham

#20. You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.

Cheryl Ladd

#21. I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

Christine Quinn

#22. That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

Dwayne Hickman

#23. I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

Marshall McLuhan

#24. You're not responsible for everything, Parker. You can't control the way things end up. Stop trying.

Courtney Summers

#25. Curious fact that those who never fail are also those who never truly succeed.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#26. Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

Marina And The Diamonds

#28. God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

#29. I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

Sean Lennon

#30. I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

Mike Curb

#31. Be a witness of sex too. Don't be the controller of it. Don't try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a witness of it too. Just as you are a witness of everything else, remain a witness of sex too.

Rajneesh

#32. It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control.

Surya Das

#33. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Elizabeth Gilbert