Control Quotes

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.