Control Quotes

• You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Life
  • Control
  • Confidence

• If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

  

  Eric Ludy
  • Control
  • Realize
  • Christian Life

• To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.

  

  Edouard Glissant
  • Written
  • Move
  • Possess

• Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Attention
  • Universe
  • Engineer

• People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.

  

  Arlene Dickinson
  • Control
  • Mistakes
  • Give Up

• RCS was the first version control tool I used. When I was at Spyglass, we had a team of 50 or so developers across three platforms using RCS on a shared code base. Since RCS never had support for networking, people on Windows and Mac had to log in to the Sun workstation that hosted RCS, FTP their code changes up there, and then check them in from the Unix shell. It was an interesting experience just trying to get all that to work.

  

  Eric Sink
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Support

• So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Relationship

• The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Control

• I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Give Up

• We've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but ten years from now, 20 years from now. That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Future

• The Internet has democratized content, and the gatekeepers are no longer in control. That democracy is wonderful for entrepreneurs.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Control
  • Democracy

• The only thing that I can do - and the only thing that I've always done - is to ride my bike fast and get my head down and control the things I can control.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Done
  • Control
  • Bike

• 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

• What has been happening in Turkey. The country has been taken over by the present rulers and they have been very, very skillful and taking over everything and taking over control over everything and now taking control over the judiciary. They will be taking over the constitution. Unless there will be some radical change, which is unlikely, I will say the tradition of Kemalism will be dead in Turkey. And Turkey is becoming a more Islamic state, in the traditional sense.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Change
  • Constitution
  • Rulers

• The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Control

• The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you've worked a room really well, it makes you feel great. TV is a bit more difficult; there are more factors that can screw it up along the way.

  

  Nina Conti
  • Control
  • Satisfaction
  • Gig

• 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

• The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Power
  • Control

• Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Control
  • Producer

• Freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought; it is essential to democratic self-governance; and the alternative-- government censorship and control of ideas-- has always led to disaster.

  

  Erwin Chemerinsky
  • Government
  • Disaster
  • Freedom Of Speech

• It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

  

  Monica Seles
  • Worry
  • Matter
  • More

• I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

  

  Scott McCallum
  • Control
  • Government
  • Directions

• Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.

  

  Charles Best
  • Control

• It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power - usually men - have tried to control women's bodies.

  

  Isabella Lovin
  • Control
  • Decisions
  • Bodies

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