Control Quotes

The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

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.'

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.