Top 1200 Command And Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

I just have never been a drinker. No matter how much I try I just can't stand the taste of it or the way it makes me feel out of control, which is a no-go for an anxiety-ridden control freak like me.

Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

Being in this game nine years or whatever, you understand things happen. You can only control what you control, and that's on the court. You can't make front-office decisions and other stuff. You've just got to come out and do your job. You try to do it to the best of your ability.

When I consider a part, I understand that it will not be as important as that of the hero. My only criteria is that it has significant potential, at least that of a second-in-command.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

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. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

To hear the Conservatives issue a command that all Leave voters must vote Tory, this seems insultingly complacent.

Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn't my definition of the 'pinnacle of motorsport.'

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

We're all as bureaucrats, or people who are - who work for state, every year we present our declaration of our incomes and expenditures to our special organs who control and double-control the declaration.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

Sometimes you feel in control, and it's great, but sometimes you just don't feel in control and you really have to struggle to get laughs.

I've been a loner all my life, so it didn't bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like 'wolume control' instead of 'volume control.'

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

We have pretty much all the facets of our business under our control now. Relying on someone else to do the right thing, you're just setting yourself up to get screwed. We control our own destiny and it's a really good feeling.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.

Toughest man I faced is myself. Everybody is the same. If you can control yourself then you can control any situation. If not then it's a 50-50 proposition or less. Though what people don't realize is they're only really fighting themselves.

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy, you are learning to take control of your destiny.

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download.

And journaling became the place that I was able to find a sense of narrative control at a time when I had to cede so much control to others. It really - it became the place where I began to interrogate my predicament and to try to excavate some meaning from it.

We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.