Sayings About Having Control

#1. It's been my experience that mankind - and I use that to encompass all the races - is seldom satisfied with what they have. Most people's striving is harmless, beneficial even. But there are those who strive for subjugation, having control over others' lives, lives held in the palm of their hand.

Lisa Shearin

#2. To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

Eric Brown

#3. The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

Tom Coburn

#4. For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#5. I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.

C.S. Woolley

#6. I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.

Steven Conrad

#7. Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

Mary Matalin

#8. Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

Adam Mansbach

#10. When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Gary Sinise

#11. it is not dancing toy animals that are an endless source of delight for infants, but rather having control.

Barry Schwartz

#12. If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

Julius Erving

#13. A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.

Scott Adams

#14. Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Paula Vogel

#15. When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.

Suze Orman

#16. dignity was simply that they'd had to manage on their own when they grew up, and therefore saw it as their right not to become reliant on others when they were adults. There was a sense of pride in having control. In being right.

Fredrik Backman

#17. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.

Kiki Smith

#18. My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

James A. Michener

#20. I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Mark Knopfler

#21. I am older and have more control over my empathy,' said Qwan. 'That's why I didn't throw up.' And having said that, he threw up.

Eoin Colfer

#22. It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

Jodi Picoult

#23. There's something about having your choices taken from you that is equally liberating and frightening. Handing over control to a person is a big deal. A showing of trust. And sometimes, I would like to be taken on a ride rather than drive.

Belle Aurora

#24. A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

Larry Wall

#25. Humanity has overcome the food chain, and having surpassed all other predators, has now turned to a strange form of cannibalism: humanity preys upon itself. We cull our own herd. We murder our own children. This is what we call "progress".

A.E. Samaan

#26. I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.

Alice Sebold

#27. Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.

Marya Hornbacher

#28. Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#29. Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.

T.F. Hodge

#30. Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

Mervyn Peake

#31. There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

Fred Rogers

#32. Excuse me, your attention please."
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
"For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.

Sarah Mayberry

#33. I was always in complete control of everything in my life and I was just so tired of having to do that alone. Not that I wanted someone else to take over my life for me or tell me how to do things, but when you're the only one accountable for everything, that can get old.

Beth Harbison

#34. I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.

George Lopez

#35. The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.

Warren Ellis

#36. Courtney was a doctor herself. She diagnosed herself with Schizophrenia years ago, but didn't take any medication. The point of her barely leaving her home or having limited conversations with people, was to keep her mood swings under control.

Nako

#37. I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

Sadie Frost

#38. I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

Kevin Mitnick

#39. Damn, she better get her imagination under control or she was going to be in trouble. She stole another glance in his direction, her eyes locked onto the bulge in his lap. Well lookie there. Maybe I'm not the only one having carnal thoughts

Tamara Hoffa

#40. I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.

Anne-Marie Duff

#41. Christianity was beauty created by controlling a million monsters of ugliness ... modern art and science practically mean having the million monsters and being unable to control them ...

G.K. Chesterton

#42. You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.

Helen Jenkins

#43. But when you're in love, you're not in control of what you think or say or do. And there is nothing I love more than control, and nothing I love less than not having it. So you tell me - what is a person like me supposed to do with a feeling like that?

Kami Garcia

#44. The inbox is always open in my brain, and anyone can get in any time and access me. Turning it off is taking back control. I decide who gets in. It's about emotional privacy, having a self.

Jill Soloway

#45. I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

Olivia Wilde

#46. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

Brene Brown

#47. Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.

Victoria Chang

#48. Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.

Stacy London

#49. Artillery raining fire on his tiny village Jabla on the Line of Control (LoC). War has numbed him, so has devastation. Yet nothing had prepared him for the havoc of Saturday morning. He was taking a nap, having had his pre-dawn Ramzan meal. At first there

Anonymous

#50. The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.

Steven Machat

#51. [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

#52. So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.'

Cecile Richards

#53. Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Tom Landry

#54. With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.

Scott Tolzien

#55. Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

Brit Marling

#56. Having' something makes us think we can control it.

Sharon Salzberg

#57. I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

Theodore Roosevelt

#58. I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.

Cheryl James

#59. How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?

Sadiq Khan

#60. conductor of heat, knowing how to control the temperature and to take advantage of its heating properties is vital when you cook with cast iron. This chapter tells you everything that you need to know. Of course, having a few recipes

Tracy L. Barr

#61. The key to having "more than enough time" is to relax. Time is change, therefore I have more time per clock-hour when i am flexible. Rigid control means less time because less change. I can lengthen my life by saying out of doctrines and ruts.

Hugh Prather

#62. In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.

Martin Clunes

#63. For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.

Phyllis Chesler

#64. Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease in unwanted pregnancies without having to provide birth control to anyone.

Heather Chapple

#65. Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.

Oli Anderson

#66. She hung up the phone and congratulated herself on still having editorial control over her raw emotions

Lisa Genova

#67. Having faith in God means trusting in Him even when everything inside of you wants to take control.

Dan Ellis

#68. Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind ... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

Marcel Proust

#69. Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Marilu Henner

#70. After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.

Cherry Jones

#71. Get in control. Live your life the way you want to live it. Don't have the money to do that? Remind yourself that your condition is your own damn fault and then commit and constantly recommit yourself to having the money to live any way you want to live.

Larry Winget

#72. Having kids is the best kind of 'out of control' there is.

Ann Benjamin

#73. That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

Stephen Dorff

#74. I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

Marianne Williamson

#75. Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

Greg Carlson

#76. We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

Emma Caulfield

#77. Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.

Bertrand Russell

#78. I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

Nikki Reed

#79. I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#80. The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.

Terry Gilliam

#81. I'd just bought a pistol and a silencer without even having to tell the guy my name. What a damned country.

Scott Pratt

#82. Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

Patricia Richardson

#83. Acting with discipline requires you to know your true nature and, having come to know it, to bring it under control.

Cameron Dokey

#84. I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

Stephanie Grant

#85. I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Ben Shahn

#86. 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

#87. And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she's having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie's face. But in a controlled way.

Fredrik Backman

#88. You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?

Jason Robert Brown

#89. The most dangerous kind of job stress stems from having "low control" over one's responsibilities.

Charles Wheelan

#90. In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

Barbara Kingsolver

#91. I know the benefits of having a really great improv show are amazing because it was this one rare and fleeting thing that was incredible, but the risk just didn't appeal to me. I liked the control of sitting down and writing things.

Allison Tolman

#92. There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment

Harriet Jacobs

#93. I read somewhere that the man who has your anger has control of you, and I understood that already, having only been in the same room as him for mere minutes.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#94. You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.

Pushpa Rana

#95. I'd love to associate with a humankind that doesn't need religion to control it. A community which instead educates its young with a strong moral guidance. I'm trusting that you can live within an acceptable moral framework without having to believe that you'll go to hell if you don't

Robert Breeze

#96. Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh.

Sunday Adelaja

#97. I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid.

Ice Cube

#98. Consciously control yourself without having to be regulated by others.

Nicolas Strauss

#99. When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

Geri Larkin

#100. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.

Archibald Marwizi