Control Quotes

• A thought is a hard thing to control.

  

  Susanna Kaysen
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Hard

• I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it’s like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that’s me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am—maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am—is right here.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Force
  • Boundaries
  • Heartbeat

• Give up control to gain control.

  

  George Knudson
  • Control
  • Gain

• There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Films
  • Interview
  • Element

• If you get fired from your job, that’s outside your control, so you shouldn’t be personally invested in your job.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Job
  • Control

• An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Control
  • Actor
  • Filmmaker

• I want to be in control of my own destiny.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Control
  • Destiny

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