Top 1200 Traffic Control Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

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.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Traffic terrifies me.

Be like a sponge and desire the Lord with everything that's within you. Every case that does that, they are on the floor receiving. People pray for you, that's your time to receive. Pray on the way out, you can pray later. Don't take control, you can take control later. The whole deal is, you lose control, He takes control. He gets you out of your comfort zone, makes you feel vulnerable, right? You can analyze it later can't you?

Stop the traffic...let 'em through.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You can't stop traffic on Times Square.

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

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.

The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and that's the spiritual aspect of the work - taking what comes and relinquishing control. Although they look very controlled, they're really not, because it's all poured paint.

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.

The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

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.

[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.

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 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.

I know about traffic.

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

There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.

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.

That L.A. traffic is no joke.

Never be afraid to stop traffic.

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

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

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.

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

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

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

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

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

Life shows us all the time, really and truly, that you're not in control of most things, but at the same time, the things that you are able to control, you should definitely hold on to that. But it's okay that you can't control every aspect of your life.

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.

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

Swearing when in heavy traffic.

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