Control Quotes

• You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Good
  • Children
  • Want

• We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Cancer

• Now "cybernetics" is the term coined by Wiener to denote "steersmanship" or the science of control. Although current engineering usage restricts it to the study of flows in closed systems, it can be taken in a wider context, as the study of processes interrelating systems with inputs and outputs, and their structural-dynamic structure. It is in this wider sense that "cybernetics" will be used here, to wit, as system-cybernetics, understanding by "system" an ordered whole in relation to its relevant environment (hence one actually or potentially open).

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Science
  • Environment
  • Study

• Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

  

  David Brin
  • Control
  • Criticism
  • Ego

• Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Control
  • Point
  • Drunk

• Consider this for a moment: House Republicans would rather cut off a woman's access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventative care from Planned Parenthood than continue to fund and operate the federal government.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • House
  • Control
  • Cancer

• I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Diva-ish

• You train your heart to control your body. That's what you do when you fast.

  

  Nouman Ali Khan
  • Heart
  • Control
  • Body

• I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.

  

  Emily Lazar
  • Artist
  • Sound
  • Creating

• I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Control

• I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

  

  Mikhail Prokhorov
  • Control
  • Politics

• When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • Fun
  • Cooking
  • Kitchen

• Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Power
  • Leader
  • Forces

• The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
  • People
  • Control
  • Financial

• Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Control
  • Cooking

• I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.

  

  Margo Lanagan
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Enemy

• I didn’t know why I was thinking about all these things—except that’s what I always did. I guess I had my own personal television in my brain. I could control whatever I wanted to watch. I could switch the channels anytime I wanted.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Control
  • Television
  • Channels

• All sorts of thoughts go through your head, 'this can't be happening to us, we don't deserve this' but Hoggy held his nerve and when you are out there you do feel you are in control.

  

  Ashley Giles
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.

  

  Michael Ovitz
  • Attention
  • Details
  • Pilots

• You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Food
  • Connection
  • Comfort

• It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • War
  • Control
  • Tanks

• Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Control

• I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Control

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