Control Quotes
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I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.
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We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.
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You can only control so much, in the end the rest is up to fate.
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Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
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On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.
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At the end of the day, you can't control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
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The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.
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. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
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Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.
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I try not to worry about things that I can't control.
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One of the biggest reasons that teachers have trouble with student-centered learning is that they have to give over a level of control to the kids. And, when you do that, you can have chaos, or you can have high levels of learning. Often, teachers are afraid of the chaos.
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The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.
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The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'
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All border crossings in and out of Iraq must be under the exclusive control of the federal state.
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Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.
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America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
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Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
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When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.
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You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.
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Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil's hole.
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It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.
