Control Quotes

• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Music
  • Control

• Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

  

  Aristotle
  • Contradict
  • Disrespectful
  • Terrorize

• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Healthy

• Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz
  • Taken
  • Present
  • Sea

• I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Human
  • Determined
  • Claim

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

  

  Abraham Kaplan
  • Community
  • Control
  • Discipline

• Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Way
  • Education
  • Rest

• I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

  

  James Murphy
  • Control
  • Cool

• Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Control

• The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Power
  • Crazy
  • Choices

• The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Law
  • King
  • Gun

• It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Good
  • Song
  • Control

• Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Why
  • Question
  • Competition

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.

  

  Karim Rashid
  • Control
  • Point
  • Machine

• Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Company
  • Stock
  • Carry

• My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Career

• Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Life
  • Real
  • Control

• I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

  

  David Walliams
  • Different
  • Control
  • Attention

• When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.

  

  Carmine Coppola
  • Control

• We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

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