Top 1200 Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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.

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

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

You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.

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

[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.

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

[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.

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.

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

The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates.

As you progress as a basketball player, the world around you becomes more and more chaotic. There's more talent, there are more distractions - and these are all factors that create a lack of control. By having a routine, by having habits that I can fall back on, it's my way of enacting control. It's the only thing I can control.

As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

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

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.

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.

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

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

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.