Top 767 Controlling Quotes & Sayings

My father was actually controlling and abusive.

You can't be controlling in improv.

I think it's obvious that the psychedelics are demonized and illegalized by our society because somewhere in our society are controlling minds that realize that these substances have the potential, have the power to unpick the controlling hierarchy.

I am all for controlling guns.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

It's easier to get into controlling relationships when you're young because you're much more eager to please, and controlling men pick up on that. If they like to make decisions for you at the start of a relationship, it can be a warning sign.

I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

Especially in our society, for a woman to be ambitious and controlling, that's a negative. Whereas me as a person, I don't think that's negative. If I wasn't ambitious and controlling to a certain extent, I wouldn't be where I am today.

As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

It's a controlling thing on stage - you're directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I'd ever want to be is that weird, controlling, manipulative character.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

There's a big difference between guiding and controlling.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

For one thing, I would like to see some new faces in all sports associations. Often you have the same people controlling a sport. They may change their designations or they may be controlling affairs from behind the curtain even when they don't have any role officially.

Corporate money is controlling everything.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

Controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.

I think I have been able to slow down a little bit and really work on different things... I think I improved on being a leader on the court. Controlling the game, controlling the pace... that is where I have grown.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.

The guitar is a funny instrument because you have bendable strings and distortion - there's a potential for noise. It is more exposing. Actually controlling the instrument, using proper vibrato, bending notes in tune, not fretting too hard, controlling the noise is a skill in itself that takes many years.

Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to be controlling in a lot of ways, but I find myself trying to battle against that, to not be controlling, because that's when great things can come about, beyond how great you think you can be.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

No controlling legal authority

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.

It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

What I try to control ends up controlling me.

If we are not in conflict with Palestine than why are they so afraid of us presenting Palestinian voices? Of course the answer is obvious, and we see it throughout the U.S. and the world, controlling the master narrative of Israel means vigilantly controlling the narrative about Palestine.

I don't think we can do anything about controlling what our climate is.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

You cant be controlling in improv.

I can be just a touch controlling!

Controlling President Trump seems incredibly difficult.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

When 8chan came back online, it was extremely unstable. I was trying to post on it to see if it worked. And it was not working at all for me, but somehow, Q' was posting. And that was kind of the moment for me that sealed the deal If they had not already been controlling it before, they were controlling it now.

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.

Ideally, we should be controlling what we eat by cooking for ourselves.