Control Quotes

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

Control your life through insanity.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

My definition of success is control.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.