Top 68 Too Much Control Quotes
#1. One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.
Philip Slater
#2. No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.
Evander Holyfield
#3. Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too much control in the market is to produce an over-regulated-regulated market.
Lawrence Lessig
#4. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.
Gillian Flynn
#5. Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In fact, while I was trying to read soul-nourishing things all I could think about was shopping and jellybeans. Points to the monkey mind.
Anna White
#6. If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano
#7. Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier.
Tony Vigorito
#8. Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.
Thomas Merton
#9. Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.
Joan D. Chittister
#10. I really wanted to lose myself. People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.
Jeff VanderMeer
#11. My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.
Kajol
#12. I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.
Richard Preston
#13. Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline ... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with ... something about yourself, your career, your spouse
Dale Dauten
#14. I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#15. War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
Patrick Ness
#16. The Hopi Indians have a saying, "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak." I know how much courage it takes to let people hear our hearts speak, but life is way too precious to spend it pretending like we're super-cool and totally in control when we could be laughing, singing, and dancing.
Brene Brown
#17. Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.
Jose N. Harris
#18. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.
Tom Robbins
#19. You rely too much on yo rules, Hannah. You use them as a kind of crutch to hold yourself back from new experiences. You've let these rules control everything you do in your life.
Shana Norris
#20. I learned to love the fool in me. The one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes & loses often, lacks self-control, loves & hates, hurts & gets hurt, promises & breaks promises, laughs & cries.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
#21. Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
Daniel Greenberg
#22. I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor.
Matt Bomer
#23. I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.
Howard Stern
#24. All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.
Stellan Skarsgard
#25. It is futile to talk too much about the past ... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
Charles Erwin Wilson
#26. I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't.
Romola Garai
#27. If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind and that will help you worry less too.
Laurie Frankel
#28. The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.
Tim Berners-Lee
#29. Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.
Karin Slaughter
#30. To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all.
I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing.
Lee Smith
#31. I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
Leo Buscaglia
#32. Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.
Craig Bierko
#33. I gradually fell from grace; alas, you dove in headfirst!
Ahmed Mostafa
#34. I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
Sarah Dessen
#36. I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he's too much of a control freak to give in to it.
Sarra Manning
#37. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.
David Titley
#38. The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
John Boehner
#39. The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
Carolyn Jones
#40. Surrender is not giving up, far from it. Surrender takes an enormous amount of courage. Often we are only capable of doing so when the pain of trying to control the outcome becomes too much to bear.
Bronnie Ware
#41. If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
Anne Enright
#42. If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control
Karen Marie Moning
#43. The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
James McAvoy
#44. She had to let go of the things she couldn't control. It hurt too much otherwise.
Jill Shalvis
#45. I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#46. The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
Ted Turner
#47. Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous.
Twyla Tharp
#48. When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.
George Robinson
#49. Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.
Chris Hardwick
#50. It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.
Katie Uhlaender
#51. In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.
Cam Gigandet
#52. Writing is the act of creation. Put words on a page, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to seven-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him.
Chuck Wendig
#53. Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
Thomas Boswell
#54. I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos ... handling my own is enough!
Kajol
#55. I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.
Emilia Fox
#57. 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
#58. Being "too pushy" is paradoxically not a display of too much strength, but of weakness. What's more impressive than ambition is the power to control it.
Lou Kasischke
#59. It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred miles a second, and I was just sitting back, feeling the growing paranoia inside of me.
Sasha Mizaree
#60. Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.
Evan Sutter
#61. The tension was so thick in the room, it was too much. He was too much. I couldn't take the pressure, so I panicked. Sexy and in control Grace left and twelve-year-old Grace took her place. "Heh, heh, you said nuts," I burst out. My self-edit button was now turned off for good.
Alice Clayton
#62. I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes, and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive.
Tom Golisano
#63. Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.
Wright Patman
#64. Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#65. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much - too tiring - and you consider letting go.
Jay Asher
#66. I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.
Marion Cotillard
#67. I find traveling anywhere very stressful. If I ever have to go on tour, I tend to find it all a bit too stressful. I am too much of a control freak with traveling, and nothing is ever on time. The one thing I can't stand is being late.
Mark Billingham
#68. I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.
Walter Dean Myers
