Control Quotes

• As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

  

  George Cukor
  • Movie
  • Control
  • Professional

• We are all agreed on a massive extension of public ownership...We are all agreed on establishing comprehensive planning control over the 100 or so largest companies in Britain. We are all agreed on the need for a national enterprise board to organise and extend public ownership in the profitable manufacturing industries.

  

  Denis Healey
  • Control
  • Planning

• I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Control

• A large user base helps shield us from things we can't control. You can spend years catering to a major corporation, for example, only to see your contact there move on.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Control

• The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • World
  • Children
  • Trying

• The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Complete

• Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Growth
  • Smart
  • Dumb

• People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

  

  Marco Arment
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

  

  Carol Alt
  • Work
  • Control

• We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Control

• 'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Book
  • Control
  • Decision

• I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • World
  • Control

• The audience has a level of control, when you watch 'Invisible,' that nothing in 2D can give you. The overall climax of the series will work no matter how you get there, and the climax of each episode will work no matter how you get there, but no two viewings of an episode will ever be the same.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Work
  • Control

• As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating factors such as mental illness.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Control
  • Powerful

• We just didn't finish the game off. We've been having that problem all season. Our problem is just stopping people and rebounding the basketball. Until we get that under control, we're going to continue to struggle through 2006 as well.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Game
  • Problem

• If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Control
  • Fire

• Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

  

  Carne Ross
  • Power
  • Control
  • Learning

• I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.

  

  Colleen Hanabusa
  • Community
  • Rest
  • Gun

• If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Character
  • Control

• In Europe, we have three tools when it comes to fair competition. One is antitrust, one is merger control, and the third is state aid control. And the third you don't have in the States.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Control
  • Competition

• The results are something I can't control, so I can't say 'damnit, I didn't place in the top three today.' I can't control any of that. I just skate. And my goal was to show my heart, to take them on a journey with me so they can feel me.

  

  Johnny Weir
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Journey

• In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Worry
  • Stress
  • Storm

• There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Imagination

• Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Life
  • Money
  • Learning

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