Control Quotes

• You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

  

  Alain Prost
  • Control
  • Car

• I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Rest

• Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Single
  • Tough

• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • New York

• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Try

• If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

  

  Zach Hunter
  • Guy
  • Self
  • Modesty

• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

  

  Freda Adler
  • May
  • Control

• My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Control

• If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • True
  • Control
  • Organization

• The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indulgences. I can't just be scoffing cakes and biscuits five nights a week.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Control
  • Hurt

• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Mistake

• It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

  

  Craig Bierko
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Movie

• Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Parents
  • Perfect
  • Wishes

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I learned a long time ago that advice is a quick trip to nowhere. It's the commitment that only you can make in yourself, the responsibility to assume control of yourself.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Time
  • Long
  • Responsibility

• I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • Fear
  • Faith

• But, look; it also exists for acts that are really established. It's not always a guarantee that you're going to do something that's going to be of quality. It's not always in your control. That's sort of how the business is. Because for the moment - for the moment, we're blessed.

  

  Steve Zissis
  • Business
  • Control
  • Blessed

• As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Parents
  • Control
  • Alone

• When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Age
  • Control
  • Emotions

• Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

  

  Chris Cannon
  • Good
  • Control
  • Immigration

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