Control Quotes
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I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
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In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
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Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
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While it is tempting to believe that you are the victim of certain people or forces beyond your control, A Course in Miracles teaches you to recognize that you are not a victim. Through the grace of God, you are lifted above and beyond any forces-internal or external-that threaten to limit you. Knowing you're not a victim is a major form of personal empowerment.
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
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We've told our guys all along to live in the moment. Worry about the things they can control. It's not even a thought.
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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.
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THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.
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Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
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To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.
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When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.
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To control your hormones is to control your life.
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If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.
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As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
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The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.
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I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.
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My definition of success is control.
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You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.
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Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.
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If we go out there, and we play well and win football games, all the good stuff will come with it. It's not my job to worry about something I can't control.
