Control Quotes

• The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch the control of the House and stop the Bush agenda. The second priority I had was to provide health care for everybody. And the third was to do public financing of campaigns.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • Time
  • House
  • Stop

• Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • World
  • Business
  • Information

• Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Free
  • Decisions
  • Shooting

• When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I've always wanted to be the best at every aspect of the business. Not just someone who does great moves or high flying moves but every aspect and can take control of every match in case something goes wrong.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Great
  • Business
  • High

• We're going to have to control the spending of government.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Control

• If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Control
  • Illusion
  • Maintain

• Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Architecture

• I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.

  

  Adolfo Cambiaso
  • Control

• The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Control

• Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Information
  • Rights
  • Private

• If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Why
  • Future
  • Song

• I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Education
  • Control

• Take control of your image, your branding, from the beginning. It even includes how you dress, since people judge you that way.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Judge

• If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

  

  Anthony Stafford Beer
  • Control
  • Management
  • Cybernetics

• Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • People
  • Money
  • Feeling

• All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Control
  • Vision
  • Equality

• Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Control

• I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is that is so accessible to me. I'm not an out-of-control person, but I can access in my work very easily a feeling of real fury. Thank goodness I've channeled it into my work, I guess.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

  

  Nigel Mansell
  • Control
  • Formula 1
  • Sterilize

• This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Power
  • Control
  • Party

• In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Control
  • Period

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