You Give Control Quotes

#1. As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

Nicholas Meyer

#2. You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

Tony Robbins

#3. 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

#4. You figure out those things that give your life meaning, and you hold onto them. You try to stop worrying about the stuff you can't control.

Cynthia Hand

#5. Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

Tom Robbins

#6. Stephen rubbed at his face. Look, I have three choices. I never see you again so I'm not tempted; I give in to temptation and milk you for power until I'm a raging madman; or I control myself. I don't like the first two options.

K.J. Charles

#7. Of course you can. It's a woman's prerogative. We get our way. Why else would god give us pussies if we weren't supposed to use them to control men? It's in the Chick Bible.

Celia Kyle

#8. If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

Naomi Wolf

#9. When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

Leslie Vernick

#10. If you want to control a population ... give them a God to worship

Noam Chomsky

#11. No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!

Rob Dyrdek

#12. In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.

Sarah Gadon

#13. Consistent happiness is an art - An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts you disregard

Gennaro Moccia

#14. I'm going to fuck you tonight in ways you've never been fucked before, Isa. I'm in complete control tonight. Do you understand? I don't want any sass from you. I want you to give yourself completely to me and I better not sense any hesitation from you.

Ella Dominguez

#15. If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.

Susan Del Gatto

#16. Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Savings give you a lot of strength, flexibility and control. They are what give you the most powerful Answer In The World.

Patrick Bet-David

#18. That's the fine balance of a fiction writer ... to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Alan Lightman

#19. When you give up, you are giving others control of your destiny.
When you choose not to give up, you take control of your destiny.

Alex Haditaghi

#20. There is a point when a structure fire is raging out of control that you simply have to give it the distance to burn itself out. So you move back to safety, to a hill out of the wind, and you watch the building eat itself alive.

Jodi Picoult

#21. The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

Paddy Considine

#22. The darkness agrees with me. It asks me to release it, as loud as a roar and as quiet as a whisper. I remember what my sister said long ago: You must control the darkness. You can't ever give in to it. But the shadows want to make me happy, and I deserve a little happiness

Justina Ireland

#23. Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

Joel Osteen

#24. I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.

Teddy Pendergrass

#25. As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you. To

Susan Forward

#26. THE MISCONCEPTION: If you are in a bad situation, you will do whatever you can do to escape it. THE TRUTH: If you feel like you aren't in control of your destiny, you will give up and accept whatever situation you are in.

David McRaney

#27. You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be

Joel Brown

#28. Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

John C. Maxwell

#29. It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

Sarah Polley

#30. Never be afraid to take a chance. Never let what anyone thinks of you control your destiny. Never, never, ever give up. Tomorrow is another chance to succeed.

Cherie' Waggie

#31. Road trips are fun. Come on. I'll let you control the music. I give you permission to put your hand on my knob." He laughed and I playfully hit him on the arm.
"There is no knob."
"Well, you are pretty good at pushing my buttons too.

Teresa Mummert

#32. Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.

Epictetus

#33. If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

Jeffrey Gitomer

#34. 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

#35. Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

Andrew J. West

#36. how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

Octavia E. Butler

#37. You cannot stop thoughts flying through your mind, but you can control what thoughts you give a landing space.

Antony Paul Maina

#38. I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.

Kitty Kelley

#39. Ultimately, no person, or no circumstance has control of you - that control belongs to you and you only. So grasp God's hand and return to the freedom that he died to give you.

Henry Cloud

#40. When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

Harry Browne

#41. You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.

Jeff Gordon

#42. My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time.

Debi Mazar

#43. The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.

Jim George

#44. 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

#45. Your mind must control, but you must have heart ... Give your feeling free.

Vladimir Horowitz

#46. If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.

Harriet B. Braiker

#47. A piece of advice: if you want to remain in control of a doomsday cult, don't give a date for the end of the world unless you're really, really sure it's going to happen. Being wrong tends to undermine your authority.

Jennifer Bosworth

#48. Denying Your Fears by changing the way you think ... will give you dynamic self-control through out life.

Timothy Pina

#49. Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

Tina Louise Brotz

#50. You acquire more influence with young people when you give up using your power to control them ... and the more you use your power to try to control people the less influence you'll have on their lives.

Thomas Gordon

#51. Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.

Flynn Meaney

#52. Sit down right now. Give me this moment. Write whatever's running through you. You might start with "this moment" and end up writing about the gardenia you wore at your wedding seven years ago. That's fine. Don't try to control it. Stay present with whatever comes up, and keep your hand moving.

Natalie Goldberg

#53. You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

Cilla Black

#54. Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

Andy Law

#55. As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.

Nicole Kidman

#56. As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

Paige Craig

#57. Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

Laura Donnelly

#58. If you're in bad mood, take a deep breath.
If you're in good mood, give thanks to God.

Toba Beta

#59. God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.

Sid Gillman

#60. I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Yahoo Serious

#61. You see, most people gain weight because they give into cravings. But when you easily (and without feeling like you're depriving yourself) gain control, the extra weight comes off.

Josh Bezoni

#62. Jack, please," she whispered, even though she had no idea what it is she was begging for.

"You want sex, I'll give you sex." His low, deep voice embodied control, and did the strangest things to her body. "But before I put my cock inside you, I want to touch and taste every inch of you.

Cathryn Fox

#63. You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

Li Ka-shing

#64. Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Seth Godin

#65. If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.

Robert Kiyosaki

#66. Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world

Kelly Martin

#67. Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

Kate Thompson

#68. You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

Donnie Wahlberg

#69. You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

Cassandra Clare

#70. I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give the writer I'm publishing a good deal of control in shaping the book and figuring out how it looks, but I'll make suggestions on how to make it stronger.

Kevin Sampsell

#71. Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we ... yes, I assure you ... we should be begging to be under control again at once.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#72. When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

Stefan Molyneux

#73. The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

Max Lucado

#74. When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.

Tom Barbash

#75. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

Louis De Bernieres

#76. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.

Anthony Liccione

#77. Sex is one of those things that's complete loss of control. You give yourself up, in your most vulnerable state, to another person, and they give themselves to you.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#78. There will be no kneeling in front of me tonight, Mistress Isabel. You told me you wanted control, so tonight I'll give you control. Complete control.

Ella Dominguez

#79. If you don't forgive those who have hurt you, you give them power of you. When you forgive you are in control of yourself and emotions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Avery Brooks

#81. you can't really have self-control until you give up other-control.

Henry Cloud

#82. As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

#83. Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Diane Arbus

#84. If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.

Rasmus Lerdorf

#85. The day you apologise for who you are is the day you give another control over who you are.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#86. If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

John O'Donohue

#87. You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.

Robert Ludlum

#88. Once you give them the power to tell you you're great, you've also given them the power to tell you you're unworthy. Once you start caring about people's opinions of you, you give up control.

Ronda Rousey

#89. Death doesn't give you control over anything. Death ends your control.

Thomm Quackenbush

#90. Give me the control, don't ever come on the set, and I'll show it to you when it's cut.

Tom Ford

#91. Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

Frederick Lenz

#92. Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith. Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up the need to be in control, take a leap in faith and fear will vanish as the mists in the morning sun.

John Harricharan

#93. Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.

Debbie Ford

#94. 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

#95. It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.

Harlan Coben

#96. It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

Aubrey Plaza

#97. Control is only an illusion to calm yourself into believing things will go a certain way. give up control, let life lead and you will find a rich discovery.

Jennifer Probst

#98. Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.

Wanda Carter

#99. When you meditate or pray ... both are forms of meditation ... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

Erin Gray

#100. I want control, Erica. But I'm not going to take it from you. You have to give it to me. you opened the door. Now you have to walk through it. You've tried to draw this hard line between us, with work and our relationship, where you keep the amount of control you think you need. It ends now.

Meredith Wild