Control Quotes
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter -
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.
Ndabaningi Sithole
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Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation's wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described as "a casino world"-wealth without worth.
Eric Kierans -
I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.
Stephen LaBerge -
For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.
Paul Parker -
I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.
Mystikal -
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
George Bernard Shaw -
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
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What we do not understand, we cannot control.
Charles A. Reich -
Customers have access to information that gives them much more control over their lives.
Steve Easterbrook -
I don't have any control of how I am received. People will either like me, not like me or love to not like me.
Melissa Sagemiller -
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
Niger Innis -
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 -
In a relationship I can influence—but not control—the thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behavior of another.
Gary Smalley
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To change behavior, products must ensure the user feels in control. People must want to use the service, not feel they have to.
Nir Eyal -
I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.
Elizabeth Lesser -
Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.
Paul Gosar -
When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.
Eva LaRue -
'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.
Sharon Bolton -
No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.
Michael Jackson
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No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.
Gavin de Becker -
There is a tremendous amount of planning that goes on through a complex operating system. But being able to control the weather is not within our business plan.
Calin Rovinescu -
I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
Juan Williams -
Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.
Ziad K. Abdelnour