Top 1200 Control Someone Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.

Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.

Competitive eating is something I can control. I know I can control, and if I push hard, I can win.

We talk to our players all the time, 'Just control what you can control.' It's no different in life.

[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

When you're in seeing someone like Ellen Page, and you're right then, it's just the two of you. You're locked in. There's this incredible subtlety and control of the actor who's sitting across from you that you're really required to step up your game.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

You can't control injuries, but you can control how hard you work to come back.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

We would need less gun control if we had better birth control.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.

Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

You can't control injuries, can't control guys getting fired and stuff like that.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who's true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.

[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary -- for society, for the poor, for the nation, even for freedom itself. Americans continued living their life of the lie: they continued believing that the more control government exercised over their lives and property, the freer they became.

We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

I'm a bit of a control freak, and I had to realize you can't control everything in your life.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

My number one thing is be kind to yourself. We can't control what other people do, we can only control what we do.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Chefs love to have that control and power to control the message they want to deliver.

When I was dancing, I felt in control and happy. I'm a Virgo, so I really like to be in control.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

If someone says they shouldn't have to follow regulations because they're making food in their home, I'd say, 'Why is your home so safe that it doesn't need that level of oversight and control?'

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.

I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.

I can't control the naysayers. I can control my attitude and work ethic and determination and that's what I'm focused on now.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.

What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.

Under President Obama we've lost control of things that we used to have control over.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

I have control of my recurrent corneal erosion, as opposed to it having control of me.

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

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?

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

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.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.